Olympus, Jason encounters her mania, who wants her son to return to her so they can be a family again, an offer that Jason rejects. She then disappears in a hiss or a sigh of relief. Cade and Mickey — Two thugs sent by Nero to rob Apollo, although Meg is able to easily drive them off. Cade is described as tall and red-haired, while Mickey is short and blond-haired. Emma and Liz — Sadie Kane's human friends from London. They stay with Sadie in The Throne of Fire during Babi and Nekhbet's sudden attack. Sadie describes Emma as "what an Indian daughter of the singer Elton John might look like", and Liz as a "boy-crazy redhead". Esther – A librarian of the Jimmy Carter Library and Museum in Atlanta. She offers Percy, Frank, and Coach Hedge a ride to the Georgia Aquarium in The Mark of Athena. Hedge describes her as smelling like potpourri. Officer Gómez – A Bostonian police officer. He wants to capture Magnus. Howard Claymore – A mortal who appears in The Demigod Diaries story Son of Magic, written by Rick Riordan's son Haley Riordan. He is a scholar and author with theories about death; he is approached for help by a son of Hecate called Alabaster Torrington who is fleeing the consequences of siding with Kronos in The Last Olympian. Claymore later sacrifices himself so Alabaster can use an incantation to destroy his monster half-sister Lamia who is chasing him. Hecate brings him back to life in an imitative human body so that he can live on as Alabaster's protector. Julian Ramirez-Arellano – Julian is the father of Reyna and Hylla. Julian was a former soldier in Iraq before the birth of his eldest daughter. After he had Reyna, he started getting paranoid. He thought that his daughters were going after him and he eventually became a mania. One day, he attacked Hylla, knocking her out, and Reyna took a sword and killed what was left of him. Reyna and Hylla then fled from San Juan, Puerto Rico, soon after. May Castellan – May is Luke's mother. Like Rachel Dare, she could see through the Mist. She went insane during a failed attempt to become the Oracle. She lives in the house where she had raised Luke, alternating between cheerful expectation that he will return home and visions of his terrible fate. In The Last