Nico was aware of somebody feeding him ambrosia.
He thought he was in his room at the palace. The one feeding him was probably Persephone.
Then she slapped him.
Nico woke up. He saw Alecto there.
It all came back to him. The punishment, the teleporting, and the dream.
He stood up.
"GET ON WITH IT!" Alecto yelled.
Nico shadow traveled for his last ten minutes.
"Ok, now what?" Nico asked.
"Hades want you too see him for lunch again."
"OK."
"But you have one more challenge. You have to find your own way."
Alecto disappeared into blackness.
Nico thought he probably could do this, after knowing everything going on at the Pavilion.
He closed his eyes and ran.
He felt himself trotting down stairs, and then running without turning that much.
As he ran, he heard laughter to his left and screams to his right. He probably didn't want to see what was causing the screams, and the laughter was most likely Elysium. Bianca's home.
Thinking about that made him angry and his mind drifted to the events at the Pavilion. Then he started running around in circles.
Focus, He told himself.
He was back on track. He ran straight the rest of the way.
When he arrived at the castle, he opened his eyes. He walked past the open gates.
Standing in the entry hall was the Fury Tisiphone.
"Follow me."
She led Nico through another maze of halls Once again, he was in the eerie dining hall.
Hades, Tisiphone, Alecto, Megaera, Persephone, and Nico all sat down it he same pattern as breakfast.
Persephone summoned a Fruit Salad. Nico summoned a cheeseburger.
Then he noticed that Hades and the Furies haven't summoned anything.
Not again, thought Nico.
But they must have overheard him talking to his plate, because they summoned cheeseburger without asking him.
Persephone looked at all of them and rolled her eyes.
"Wow, mortal food is good, " Hades said, "Let's get to the point. Today I have an announcement. Persephone is going to the above world tomorrow for spring and summer. I wish her safety, but she probably is glad it leave."
"Got that right," she said.
"That is all."
They ate their meal in silence.
After Persephone, Hades, Tisiphone, and Megaera left, Alecto told him, "You will be going overworld this afternoon. Get some rest. You won't get lost. You are clearly good at navigating the Underworld."
With that, she disappeared.
Nico managed to find his room. He was laying down thinking about what happened. Why did he have a dream about King Minos?
Someone knocked on the door.
"Come in."
It was Persephone.
"I'm going to Mother's farm in Iowa tomorrow. Before I leave, I just want to say thank you for existing."
"OK?"
"I mean if Hades had eyes for someone else, that someone being your mother, he might learn to be not that dependent on me. Then I could be free of him."
"No offense, but I don't think he'll EVER let you leave permanently."
'That's what most people think."
She walked out the door and left.
Nico decided to take a nap.
He dreamed he was hiding behind a pillar.
The pillar was made of gold. It was standing there in a city of gold, so it wasn't that unusual.
Elysium, His head told him.
No surprise. He peeked his head out. He saw he was facing a road. Across the road was an outdoor café. A man sat in one chair, asleep.
He couldn't see who was on the other side, nor could he move to see.
The man woke up and said, "Hello."
He wasn't greeting him. He was greeting the person on the other side.
A familiar girl's voice said, "Did you sent him the dreams?"
"Yes."
"Good. Hopefully this works."
The man went back to sleep.
Then the pillar disappeared.
The girl talking to that man was Bianca.
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