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mythlology) wrote2014-01-25 09:44 pm
mythlology) wrote2014-01-25 09:44 pm
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Lalala.
Annabeth is unhappy/concerned about Luke. Percy tells everyone about seeing the gold coffin, the way the last piece of Kronos's spirit entered Luke's body when Ethan pledged his service. Annabeth is in denial about Luke being gone. Reference to Rachel braining Kronos with a hairbrush. Rachel and Annabeth have this low-grade catfight simmering. They're about to go back to New York but then see Grover's had and follow that trail instead.
They find Grover and Tyson. They enter Pan's cave. It's gorgeous and there are extinct animals. Pan says he's dying and Nico confirms it. Gods can't die but they can fade. Pan says everyone has to take up parts of his mantle. Then he says something reassuring to everyone but Nico lol. Grover releases Pan and the little cavern paradise disappears.
We ran until we were exhausted. Rachel steered us away from traps, but we had no destination in mind—only away from that dark mountain and the roar of Kronos. We stopped in a tunnel of wet white rock, like part of a natural cave. I couldn’t hear anything behind us, but I didn’t feel any safer. I could still remember those unnatural golden eyes staring out of Luke’s face, and the feeling that my limbs were slowly turning to stone.
“I can’t go any farther,” Rachel gasped, hugging her chest.
Annabeth had been crying the entire time we’d been running. Now she collapsed and put her head between her knees. Her sobs echoed in the tunnel.
Nico and I sat next to each other. He dropped his sword next to mine and took a shaky breath. “That sucked,” he said, which I thought summed things up pretty well.
“You saved our lives,” I said.
Nico wiped the dust off his face. “Blame the girls for dragging me along. That’s the only thing they could agree on. We needed to help you or you’d mess things up.”
“Nice that they trust me so much.” I shined my flashlight across the cavern. Water dripped from the stalactites like a slow-motion rain. “Nico . . . you, uh, kind of gave yourself away.”
“What do you mean?”
“That wall of black stone? That was pretty impressive. If Kronos didn’t know who you were before, he does now— a child of the Underworld.”
Nico frowned. “Big deal.”
I let it drop. I figured he was just trying to hide how scare he was, and I couldn't blame him.
Annabeth is unhappy/concerned about Luke. Percy tells everyone about seeing the gold coffin, the way the last piece of Kronos's spirit entered Luke's body when Ethan pledged his service. Annabeth is in denial about Luke being gone. Reference to Rachel braining Kronos with a hairbrush. Rachel and Annabeth have this low-grade catfight simmering. They're about to go back to New York but then see Grover's had and follow that trail instead.
They find Grover and Tyson. They enter Pan's cave. It's gorgeous and there are extinct animals. Pan says he's dying and Nico confirms it. Gods can't die but they can fade. Pan says everyone has to take up parts of his mantle. Then he says something reassuring to everyone but Nico lol. Grover releases Pan and the little cavern paradise disappears.