It should cool down eventually. Just don't do anything too drastic with it. [It's an offhand comment once Rikki retrieves the weapon, but Annabeth nods at it regardless.]

[Her eyes scan over the jiangshi. Look up, over, around. Aha. A smaller alleyway, and it looks like there's a balcony on the second floor of one of the buildings.]

Well, they want our souls right? We use ourselves as bait. See that alley over there? [She gestures ever so slightly with a tilt of her head, not wanting to alert the jiangshi, who have started to collect themselves and seem to be doing some calculating of their own.] If we got them all down there at once, it's probably narrow enough. We go up, you throw down, boom.