When the sunlight streamed into his eyes, he only then realized that he had fallen asleep. And that the bed in front of him was empty. He cursed, and saw that the stitches's strips were on the floor. They probably had already opened. He got up, and almost fell over medical supplies. Regaining his balance, he ran to the dining pavilion, grabbed 2 apples, threw it in the fire and said, "To Apollo". And started to search as he snacked on his apple. After asking the campers, he looked in the woods. He wasn't able to search the whole thing.

The next day, he went further in. It took 3 whole days to search the woods. And there was no sign of Nico. But then, realized he was being stupid, "He probably shadow traveled" he said under his breath. He got one final idea and nervously walked over to the Hades's Cabin, Nico and some skeletons had built it, it had solid black obsidian walls with a skull over the door. Including some torches that held burning green fire that never extinguishes. It was a cool cabin, but Nico sadly was the only one who lived there.

Slowly opening the door, he saw Nico sitting on his bed a sighed in relief. But caught his breath, when he got a closer look. There were streaks of tears down his face, his hair was disheveled, and his lips were dry and cracked. And his eyes....his eyes were wide and bloodshot. As if he still couldn't believe it. 'At least he didn't run away' he thought to himself. Annabeth had said, when Bianca died, he ran away. Will began approaching him, but he didn't even flinch, his eyes didn't look at him, and his face wasn't guarded. "Nico?" He didn't look up, as if he couldn't hear him.