Carter Quote by Rick Riordan

“I found that things weren't going well upstairs. Carter was a crumpled heap of chicken warrior on the slope of the pyramid.”

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Trying to make it from the bottom. His sins Feeling as hard as Vince Carter's knee cartilage is.

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“Time crawls in the silence. Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. Tock. Tock. Tock.”

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