I knew that a fire in a trash can wasn’t going to make me any friends, and I didn’t care.

[ While his behaviour might be shocking, he’s honest about it. ]

I’m used to giving offerings before meals - I’m not “some deep who’d set the cafeteria on fire” and let kids die in the fire.

[ But she’s still calling Hades a monster, he thinks, and he’s just. Done.

Doubly done because he’s been practically begging his father to help him and has heard nothing, but she’s seen Hades?! It’s crushing. Nico had thought that - that things had improved the past 5 years. ]

I can compare my world to this one without you. Enjoy your lunch.

[ Nico shoulders his bag and rolls out like a storm cloud, tossing his second lunch tray in the trash as he goes. ]