Nico's POV:
Son... remember...
everything happens for a reason...
...wake...
wake...
My eyes dart open, I don't remember closing my eyes. Chaos must have put me into some kind of deep sleep.
"Pst, pst"
I turn to where the whisper is coming from. There is another cage left from me. In which is a girl, about the same age as me, her black hair touches the floor. My own black eyes meet her sea green ones. She studies me carefully then drops her eye contact.
"I'm Nico" I stammer, her beauty if breath taking
"You can call me Odessa," she sweeps the stray piece of hair back off her face.
"How long have you been here?" I ask
"As long as I can remember, I don't think I have ever been in the real world." Her face clouds over, asking me not to ask further. "But I have this," she shows me a trident on a chain. Thoughts race through my head too fast that I cant find a definite meaning.
"I am a daughter of Neptune. My father brought me here to protect me, he said romans do not like the sea, I would be bad luck to them. he said one day when the time is right and the peace restored,you can come back to the real world."
I nod and feel guilty, I was kept safe in the lotus casino where I was having fun, well thats what it seemed at the time. While she was down here.
"I am a son of Hades, the ambassador of the underworld."
"Don't you mean Pluto. Hades is Pluto's greek name"
"No I am quite sure I meant Hades..."
She looked puzzled for a minute, then relived. "You are here to take me back?" I remember what her father said to her.
"I guess so, everything happens for a reason." I hide the fact that there is no peace at all, the romans are still planing to destroy the greek camp. She smiles for the first time.
"We must rest," I say "there is bound to be a battle to get us out of here."
"No," she says softly, reaching her hand in between the bars. She touches my face. She twirls my hair between her fingers, her eyes pour into mine.
Suddenly I can see a temple, then a charm bracelet. Then Percy's face comes into my vision, words swirl over his face. I only catch a few, Binnica, promise, safe, prophecy. It doesn't tell me a lot but I makes me realise what is happening. Everything goes black, the Rachel Dare appears. She is saying the lines of the prophecy, but only one is out aloud: An oath to keep with a final breath. Panic rushes through me, please not Percy...
Then her eyes are back
"We must wake, sleeping here is a gate way to trouble."
She moves her hand back through the bars and turns away. She looks up, my eyes follow. I gasp, above us is layers and layer of cages like ours stretching up. I feel small. Then I spot a small gap in the 'ceiling'. A plan stretches out in my mind. Its not a great one, with that much risk, but I must carry it out. For Odessa.