ABILITIES... ( @calledkore / persephone ) ❝ you need to rest. you’ve done more than enough. ❞
he’s affronted by even the suggestion that he should rest. bianca wouldn’t rest. hazel wouldn’t rest. percy wouldn’t rest. sure, he isn’t as heroic as his sisters and the son of poseidon, but he’s trying, and that has to count for something. he stretches himself thin, scours the world above and below for solutions to problems that shouldn’t exist. and after participating in two or three wars, a boy gets lost. years spent fighting against physical terrors and now... nothing. he can’t go back to who he was. he doesn’t even know who he is.
nico shakes his head, unruly hair settling messily just past his shoulders. “ there is still more i can do. ” but what is there to be done? the dust has settled and everyone is returning to the life they had prior, and he can’t do the same. he keeps his gaze averted from persephone, scared that she’d be able to see right through him. “ i can’t rest, i came here to speak with my father. ” because hades should know what to do, he’ll guide nico to the right path just as he did with camp jupiter and hazel and everything else. “ is he busy ? ” and, distantly, he realizes that he may be dismissing persephone, but how can she help him when he can’t help himself?
