[More examples float up from his memories, but he figures she gets the point. She takes it all in stride, calm and calculating like she's already preparing herself for the possibility that she'll be pitted against some adversary or another. Which tells him that Annabeth has done this before.

Wilhelm is impressed, but there's a small, mean part of him that's a little envious too. For him, arriving in this world was like being plunged into the middle of the ocean without knowing how to swim. It took him a long time to get the hang of treading water. She won't have to struggle like he did.

That's a good thing, he scolds himself. Releasing a sigh, he reminds himself too that he's come a long way in these two years.]

Lots of different ones. There was a dragon, and a giant octopus thing — I didn't get close enough to really get a good look. But I did get chased by, like, demonic dogs. [Yeah. Good times.] There are monsters all over the woods in Nocwich, too.

[By now they've reached the carriage house, and he holds the broad door for her.]