Percy, hãy để tôi đi “Cô ấy kêu lên.” Bạn không thể kéo tôi lên. “Khuôn mặt anh ta có màu trắng. Nico, mười lăm feet phía trên. “Mặt khác, Nico! Chúng tôi sẽ gặp bạn ở đó. Hiểu? “Đôi mắt của Nico mở to.” Nhưng-“” Dẫn họ! “Percy hét lên.” Hãy hứa với tôi! ” Sự kìm kẹp của anh ta trên cổ tay của Annabeth. Bạn không rời xa tôi. Không bao giờ nữa. “Chỉ sau đó cô ấy mới hiểu điều gì sẽ xảy ra. Một chuyến đi một chiều. Xa xa, có lẽ là ánh sáng mặt trời cuối cùng mà cô từng thấy. Sau đó, Percy buông gờ, và cùng nhau, nắm tay nhau, anh và Annabeth rơi vào bóng tối vô tận.
Percy, let me go” she croaked. “You can’t pull me up.”His face was white with effort. She could see in his eyes that he knew it was hopeless.”Never,” he said. He looked up at Nico, fifteen feet above. “The other side, Nico! We’ll see you there. Understand?”Nico’s eyes widened. “But-“”Lead them!” Percy shouted. “Promise me!””I-I will.”Below them, the voice laughed in the darkness. Sacrifices. Beautiful sacrifices to wake the goddess. Percy tightened his grip on Annabeth’s wrist. His face was gaunt, scraped and bloody, his hair dusted with cobwebs, but when he locked eyes with her, she thought he had never looked more handsome.”We’re staying together,” he promised. “You’re not getting away from me. Never again.”Only then did she understand what would happen. A one-way trip. A very hard fall.”As long as we’re together,” she said.She heard Nico and Hazel still screaming for help. She saw sunlight far, far above- maybe the last sunlight she would ever see.Then Percy let go of his ledge, and together, holding hands, he and Annabeth fell into the endless darkness.
Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena