[ percy had just been standing nearby and now....and now there is a girl clinging onto him?? he half-lifts his arms out of the way, has to check the impulse to grab for his sword (concealed in his pocket in the form of an ordinary-looking pen).
and then his mind catches up with what she said. ]
offers you up some weird-smelling boy for smittenbitten
[ percy had just been standing nearby and now....and now there is a girl clinging onto him?? he half-lifts his arms out of the way, has to check the impulse to grab for his sword (concealed in his pocket in the form of an ordinary-looking pen).
and then his mind catches up with what she said. ]
Wait, what?