"Hey, your mum told me everything.
And I mean everything.
And at first I didn't believe it but then it kind of made sense.
You had strength Percy, I will admit that. Your girlfriend is very beautiful. She is-was- strong. And I am terribly sorry about your friend Nico, that weight Annabeth had to carry would not have been easy. And the weight you bore on your shoulders would have crushed any regular man. So, this is my final goodbye."
He pauses and takes in a breath.
"And I hope you have found peace, Percy Jackson, in your palace of blood and bone.
I hope you have found your lover.
And I hope you found your last and final embrace."
Here lies the final resting place of Percy Jackson
"I will join you one day. I will see you again."
With that, Braden turns away from the tomb stone and walks out the graveyard and into the street where the world seems to be a tunnel of never ending darkness. And suddenly he seems hopeless and his heart feels desolate.
What is the point?
Braden squints into the black world but in the distance he sees something.
A glimmer of hope.
He walks on.