A/N: This fanfic is going to be twice as long as an average novel, I have calculated it.

skipped through the streets. 'I want to go to the arcade, so that I can beat you again.'

'Is that how a lady talks?'

'It is how this lady talks.'

I grinned. 'However, I won last time.'

'Lies. You could only get chewing gum. I won a sticky hand, which is three tokens more. I use it to keep the Laeres away.'

I rolled my eyes. 'Three whole tokens more then me!'

'Yes. Now I need even more. So I can get more stickyhands.' She grinned at me.

'Sure, sure. Yet, shouldn't we get something to drink first?'

'Oh, yes!' She looked around, until she spotted a fancy coffeecorner. 'Over there…'

'I should have known. Expensive tea.'

'Why don't you try it out? You'll probably love it immediately.'

'Hm.'

She sighed. 'I'll pay for it this time!'

'Okay then.'

We shuffled in line to get our drinks. 'Why are the lines always so long?'

'No asking. Just think about the tea.'

I rolled my eyes. Hazel hooked her arm through mine. 'Nico, is there anything heavy you wanted to talk about today? Because then you need to say it right now.'

'Hm. Let me think… oh right! I spoke to Ariadne a few weeks ago...'

'Ariadne?'

'Eh...' Was her name different in Latin? 'Do you know the myth of Theseus?'

'Of course.'

'You now the girl he left on the beach? Who then got married to Dionysus?'

'Oh, Ariana?'

'If you want to call her that.'

'She is married to Bacchus, or Dionysus, as you call him. The goddess of Passion.'

'Her. Anyway, I talked to her. We talked about Minos, who haunted me and is her father. After that, she very briefly told me about her mother too. And you met her.'

'That's Pasiphae.'

'The very one.'

'The immortal sorceress. Or should I not be calling her that?'

'Let's keep it at Pasiphae. To be safe.'

'To be safe.' Hazel looked up at the menu. 'She was the one who prophesised Leo's death, did you know that?'

'I didn't. She did?'

'Yes. Luckily, she was only half-right.' She sighed. 'I did not like meeting her and she was difficult to fight against. In the end, I don't even know if I beat her. The way I defeated it, she can't be fully gone and because the labyrinth stayed…' she shrugged.

'Miss? Your order?'

She jerked her head up. 'Eh, I want a bubble tea with dragonfruit pearls. You?' She looked at me.

'Eh… what you have... withapple-flavoured pearls?'

'Yes, that is okay.' The guy behind the counter nodded and turned around to make our drinks.

I leaned closer. 'I think maybe the labyrinth stayed because of Ariadne. She's the lady of the labyrinth. Maybe she is keeping it in exsistance, not Pasiphae.'

'Really?' The guy put some ice in a crushing machine. It made a loud noise.

'Yes.'

'I feel like I might have known that deep inside, or something.'

'I think I get what you mean.'

'Pasiphae used to be one of Hecates' favorites,' Hazel continued, after we got our drinks. 'It was weird to be fighting alongside her when I did not know if she was really against the enemy.' She took a sip of her drink. 'I didn't know if I could trust Hecate. In hindsight, I think I could. But still. As I said before, I do not know if Pasiphae is gone or not. She fell into a hole. That cannot be enough to kill someone as powerful as her. That might mean that Hecate protected her, perhaps to launch another attack later on.'

That sounded awfully reasonable. 'At least she'll be out for a while.'

'Hm.' She took another sip. 'On the other hand, I pity her. It must be awful to slowly see your kingdom fall apart, to have a husband like Minos and to be a pawn for the gods used to punish that husband. And then most of your children either die or flee the kingdom.' She shuddered. 'Horrible.'

'It is. I do get why her children fled, though.' I thought of Ariadne, who was forced to care for the fourteen kids from Athens every year.

Hazel nodded. 'I do too. Still. Awful.'

'Awful,' I agreed. And I realised it really was. 'What does Hecate think of it?'

She shrugged. 'We don't talk much, and when we do it is about the magic I am learning. I think she mourns her former favorite, but she also understands it needed to happen. Otherwise she wouldn't have let it.'

I nodded. 'Well, yes.'

'Yes.' She slurped a few tapioca pearls through her straw. 'Can we go to the arcade now? I want to beat you at the pinball machine.'

'I don't want to do the pinball machine with you. What if you use magic to manipulate the machine so that only you can win?'

'What if I do?'

I jumped up and ran away, with her on my heels (Luckily our drinks had a lid). 'This time I'll be the one to win a sticky hand! I have people to keep away from me too!'

A/N: I know Nico won a plastic spider in the chapter called 'Rose Lassie.' I like to make it seem like they meet up more often than once every six months.

Me, fourteen, having to read that Rick made Pasiphae the mistress of the labyrinth instead of Ariadne: Why is this guy lying. I hate it

Also, Ariadne should have been in The Battle Of The Labyrinth CHANGE MY MIND-