"Is he going to try for rebirth?"

 

Nico shook his head. "He's staying in Elysium. Said he's waiting for someone.

Not sure what he meant, but he seems okay with death."

 

It wasn't much comfort, but it was something.

 

"I had a vision you were on Mount Tam," I told Nico. "Was that — "

 

"Real," he said. "I didn't mean to be spying on the Titans, but I was in the

neighborhood."

 

"Doing what?"

 

Nico tugged at his sword belt. "Following a lead on . . . you know, my family."

 

I nodded. I knew his past was a painful subject. Until two years ago, he and his

sister Bianca had been frozen in time at a place called the Lotus Hotel and

Casino. They'd been there for like seventy years.

 

Eventually a mysterious lawyer rescued them and checked them into a boarding

school, but Nico had no memories of his life before the casino. He didn't know

anything about his mother. He didn't know who the lawyer was, or why they'd been

frozen in time or allowed to go free. After Bianca died and left Nico alone,