p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: white;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #414141;"Reyna POV/span/p
p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #414141;"It was an average day at Camp Jupiter. A Senate Meeting was scheduled later in the day, but aside from that, it was a nice day. /span/p
p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #414141;" /span/p
p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #414141;"This was the first peaceful week she had since the war with Gaia. Repairing New Rome, tending the wounded, working with Frank Zhang… It was absolutely hectic. Now, she could have some free time. Reyna whistled for her dogs. Soon after, Aurum and Argentum raced towards her. She patted her dog affectionately./span/p
p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #414141;" /span/p
p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #414141;""Let's go, Aurum, Argentum." She said./span/p
p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #414141;" /span/p
p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #414141;"Reyna strolled to the Garden of Bacchus, her favorite place in camp. She sat on a bench and enjoyed the cool autumn breeze. /span/p
p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #414141;" /span/p
p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #414141;"Of course, her peace only lasted 5 minutes. It broke when Dakota ran to her, his mouth stained with red Kool-Aid./span/p
p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #414141;" /span/p
p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #414141;""Dakota. Something to report? It'll have to wait for a few moments. There's a Senate Meeting." /span/p
p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #414141;""Nico… He's back." /span/p
p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #414141;"He hesitated as he didn't want to deliver the news. Reyna's heart sank. She hadn't seen the son of Hades in a long time. Was something wrong?/span/p
p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #414141;""And?"/span/p
p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #414141;""He's… he's hurt. Badly. The medics are trying to heal him, but…"/span/p
p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #414141;""Cancel the Senate Meeting."/span/p
p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #414141;"She sprinted to the infirmary as fast as she could. Dakota was shouting her name, telling her to wait, but Reyna didn't care. /span/p
p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #414141;"Nico is badly injured./span/p
p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #414141;"He could die./span/p
p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #414141;"He can't die, not when I'm here. She thought./span/p
p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #414141;" /span/p
p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #414141;"She arrived at the infirmary, and she saw Nico immediately. Nico's face was deathly pale and bruised in several spots. His left arm was bent at a strange angle. And his fingertips were slightly transparent, like smoky glass. He was wearing a shredded Camp Half-blood T-shirt. Camp medics were trying to feed him some unicorn draught, but it was no use. /span/p
p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #414141;"And in his gut…/span/p
p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #414141;""Oh, Styx," Reyna cursed./span/p
p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #414141;"A nasty cut stretched from his stomach to his chest. It was about an inch deep. Crimson blood was pooling on the bed. /span/p
p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #414141;""How did he even get here?"/span/p
p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #414141;""He just appeared out of nowhere in the middle of New Rome. Terrified quite a few children."/span/p
p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #414141;" /span/p
p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #414141;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt;" /span/p
p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #414141;"It was an average day at Camp Jupiter. A Senate Meeting was scheduled later in the day, but aside from that, it was a nice day. /span/p
p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #414141;" /span/p
p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #414141;"This was the first peaceful week she had since the war with Gaia. Repairing New Rome, tending the wounded, working with Frank Zhang… It was absolutely hectic. Now, she could have some free time. Reyna whistled for her dogs. Soon after, Aurum and Argentum raced towards her. She patted her dog affectionately./span/p
p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #414141;" /span/p
p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #414141;""Let's go, Aurum, Argentum." She said./span/p
p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #414141;" /span/p
p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #414141;"Reyna strolled to the Garden of Bacchus, her favorite place in camp. She sat on a bench and enjoyed the cool autumn breeze. /span/p
p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #414141;" /span/p
p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #414141;"Of course, her peace only lasted 5 minutes. It broke when Dakota ran to her, his mouth stained with red Kool-Aid./span/p
p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #414141;" /span/p
p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #414141;""Dakota. Something to report? It'll have to wait for a few moments. There's a Senate Meeting." /span/p
p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #414141;""Nico… He's back." /span/p
p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #414141;"He hesitated as he didn't want to deliver the news. Reyna's heart sank. She hadn't seen the son of Hades in a long time. Was something wrong?/span/p
p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #414141;""And?"/span/p
p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #414141;""He's… he's hurt. Badly. The medics are trying to heal him, but…"/span/p
p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #414141;""Cancel the Senate Meeting."/span/p
p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #414141;"She sprinted to the infirmary as fast as she could. Dakota was shouting her name, telling her to wait, but Reyna didn't care. /span/p
p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #414141;"Nico is badly injured./span/p
p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #414141;"He could die./span/p
p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #414141;"He can't die, not when I'm here. She thought./span/p
p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #414141;" /span/p
p style="margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; background: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #414141;"She arrived at the infirmary, and she saw Nico immediately. Nico's face was deathly pale and bruised in several spots. His left arm was bent at a strange angle. And his fingertips were slightly transparent, like smoky glass. He was wearing a shredded Camp Half-blood T-shirt. Camp medics were trying to feed him some unicorn draught, but it was no use. /span/p
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