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It's been 3 weeks since Annabeth and I fell into Tartarus. Or maybe its been a month. We stopped counting after 2 days. With no sunlight and no way to tell time its hard to keep time. It feels like an eternity. We just walk around aimlessly. There is a new monster for us to kill every 5 minutes or so but it doesn't do us any good killing them.
They just come right back here.
I really hope our new friends and Nico are having better luck getting to the door than we are.
We are dying down here.
For us we feel like we are two people in a lake trying to get back to the boat. You feel like you aren't moving at all or you try with all your might to swim back to the boat but it keeps drifting further and further away with every passing wave.
Where is this door?
Annabeth's ankle is fighting to heal. Every time it gets close to being fully healed we run into another monster that ruins it again. Most of the time when we are running or walking she has to lean on me which slows us down. I don't care though; so long as she's safe and with me I don't care how long this journey takes us. I can tell by the look on her face that she feels embarrassed, like a dead weight, useless even. I just kiss the top of her head then her lips and whisper "we are alive," and the look usually goes away and we continue. Sometimes just saying I love you to one another in the darkness of this cavern is enough to keep us moving. We are almost out of ambrosia.
I miss my mom.
I miss her blue chocolate cookies and her bag of blue candies. I miss camp, and Chiron, and Groverm and Tyson. I miss being able to talk to my dad. I miss the ocean. Heck I even miss Paul. I just want to bring Annabeth back to the land of the living alive and well.
We take turns sleeping so one of us can keep guard of the other. Annabeth insisted I slept first since I'm the one who's working myself to the bone. I can't sleep though; not on this ground, not here. But for Annabeth's sake I get a few hours of dreamless sleep. Just more darkness behind my closed eyelids.
After a while I just give up on hope of anymore sleep tonight so I open my eye lids to see Annabeth lying down besides me staring at me. The soft glow from my sword gives me enough light to see her darkened grey eyes and the dark rings underneath them. Various cuts go along her nose and cheeks which are also dirt filled from not being able to wash up in the time we've been here. Her golden hair still held some curls but it was all a mess. All of this stuff has become familiar to me which makes me sad.
Though there was something much different about her now. Upon her lips is a slight smile; almost miss-able from a distance but a smile none the less. I can't remember the last time I smiled. There wasn't much down here to smile about. I raised an eyebrow at her obviously confused by this and asked "What?" Then she responds in a whisper not losing her smile.
"You drool when you sleep."
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