[ Percy blows out a breath, like he's gearing himself up to deliver the truth bomb of truth bombs.
He doesn't actually know if it'll mean anything to a guy from 1868, like maybe his saying '2009' (allegedly, because who knows what's going on in the Riordanverse timeline) is gonna just seem like he's spitting out a bunch of random numbers.
But if he were from the 19th century, where steam whistles and locomotive trains were the newest, hottest thing? He'd probably ... uh. Faint or something. Oh, man, he hopes this guy doesn't faint. ]
Well, I've got some good news and some ... weird news. The good news is that the new inventions totally don't stop happening, and New York is gonna get interesting and stay interesting — [ Look, he has to say something, okay, he has to. ] — and the weird news? Is that I know that for a fact. 'Cause I'm from like a hundred some years after you.
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He doesn't actually know if it'll mean anything to a guy from 1868, like maybe his saying '2009' (allegedly, because who knows what's going on in the Riordanverse timeline) is gonna just seem like he's spitting out a bunch of random numbers.
But if he were from the 19th century, where steam whistles and locomotive trains were the newest, hottest thing? He'd probably ... uh. Faint or something. Oh, man, he hopes this guy doesn't faint. ]
Well, I've got some good news and some ... weird news. The good news is that the new inventions totally don't stop happening, and New York is gonna get interesting and stay interesting — [ Look, he has to say something, okay, he has to. ] — and the weird news? Is that I know that for a fact. 'Cause I'm from like a hundred some years after you.