Probably not? [ Nico doesn't want to know what a death trance is, even if it saved his life. ] Basically, I can use seeds from my stepmother's garden in my dad's domain to put me in a state close to death, like hibernation. Comes in handy if I'm trying to avoid a death by dehydration, starvation, or suffocation.
[ Or all three at the same time. He'd gone into it completely unprepared unlike the animals who would hibernate for the winter. Only the seeds keeping him from slipping fully into his father's world. ]
Like a metal sponge being rubbed on a salted wound. [ It hurt like that. ] Yeah, my world has plenty of other ways it's horrible and that's just one of them.
[ The bigotry still exists, just not as badly as it once was. ]
He and Annabeth managed to get out of the pit, she thanked me for being the reason they had help down there. We split off to do separate tasks, and I stupidly pushed myself to the limits of what I could physically handle. That's when Will inserted himself into my life, telling me off for using my powers when I'd nearly become one with the shadows. I could see it, that way people would pull back from me or were afraid of me. There wasn't any of that with Will.
[ There's the faintest of smiles on his face now. ]
He wanted me to stick around, not just camp, but with him. That was the moment I knew I was really over Percy, and I was able to tell him that. To be able to say it without being forced or pressured into it. Now Percy's off to college with his girlfriend, and I've got a boyfriend who can light up the darkness when I feel like I'm drowning in it.
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[ Or all three at the same time. He'd gone into it completely unprepared unlike the animals who would hibernate for the winter. Only the seeds keeping him from slipping fully into his father's world. ]
Like a metal sponge being rubbed on a salted wound. [ It hurt like that. ] Yeah, my world has plenty of other ways it's horrible and that's just one of them.
[ The bigotry still exists, just not as badly as it once was. ]
He and Annabeth managed to get out of the pit, she thanked me for being the reason they had help down there. We split off to do separate tasks, and I stupidly pushed myself to the limits of what I could physically handle. That's when Will inserted himself into my life, telling me off for using my powers when I'd nearly become one with the shadows. I could see it, that way people would pull back from me or were afraid of me. There wasn't any of that with Will.
[ There's the faintest of smiles on his face now. ]
He wanted me to stick around, not just camp, but with him. That was the moment I knew I was really over Percy, and I was able to tell him that. To be able to say it without being forced or pressured into it. Now Percy's off to college with his girlfriend, and I've got a boyfriend who can light up the darkness when I feel like I'm drowning in it.