Next thing I knew, I was sitting in the passenger seat of a black Tesla, just Nico's style. Leo has built replicas of popular cars, and distributed them to each of the cabin captains.

I wished he could have made Nico's car green instead of black.

Nico actually came out for dinner last night, and sat with Will at the Apollo table (according to Will, it's because Nico needs someone there to calm him down, in case he accidentally rips open the floor with the dead). I sat with Maya and her siblings at the Demeter table.

Before the Hades cabin called lights out, Nico gave me an update about the "ghost war."

Nico says that he was talking to some ghosts (he says it so casually), and the ghosts had told him that war was "brewing" amongst the residents of the Underworld, aka my Dad's house.

Since communications have been down (eg. Iris messages, memory links, even moral email and texting), the ghosts can't communicate as much as they typically can with the living.

That's why Nico says he is only getting fragments of the conversation the ghosts are telling him.

I told him that I didn't think ghosts would text each other.

"Of course ghosts text each other. Don't be ridiculous."

Now, we're sitting in some Tesla that Elon Musk, and my brother, thinks is cool, while we are driving to New Rome.

"New Rome is the other demigod camp." Nico said as we got in the car, at 5:00AM this morning (it's going to take a while to drive to New Rome).

"Demigods with a Roman background train in New Rome."

"So, Ancient Rome had its own mythology stories? With different gods?"

"Not exactly. The Greek gods and goddesses, who were solely existing in Greece, mind you, Greece came before Rome, but then, as they always do, move to the heart of Greek mythology."

"So, it's the same gods."

SIGH. "Not exactly. Just wait until we get there."

I asked Nico if we could have just taken a plane to California (New Rome is located there), but since he's a child of the big three, and Zeus might not love him for that, then Nico thought it would be better to just drive.

Driving takes, like, a week.

And, since my phone was confiscated from me by Will Solace (he says he smashed it, since, apparently, demigods can't have phones), I couldn't just look up cute pictures of BTS members, or sit on TikTok and rot my brain.

I couldn't even play Subway Surfers. :(

It's about lunch time. "I'm starving." I turned to Nico with puppy eyes. "Could we get... Wendy's?"

"Ew, no."

"Burger King?"

"No way."

"Subway?"

"That stuff will rot your teeth."

"McDonald's?"

"Hmm..." Nico seemed to ponder the meaning of life when I asked for some yummy fries.

"Sure."

"Yay! I've never had McDonald's before."

"Oh?"

"Yeah. Could we get fries?"

"Fries?" Nico turned to me, chuckling to himself. "We're going to McDonald's, sis. We're eating a lot more than just fries."