Leo had been missing from the Argo II for hours. The crew had been worried beyond words, searching endlessly without a second of rest. You especially. Demigods didn't just disappear like that. There was always a body. Sure, he had been blown into the wind during a fight with Khione, but Percy had scoured the entire ocean beneath them, even consulting with local schools of fish. No one had seen him.

You were the most worried of everyone. In the past few months on the quest you and Leo had grown exceptionally close, your friendship deepening into feelings neither of you understood or admitted. And now he was gone. Everyone agreed that he would never have just left like that, but it didn't change the fact that he wasn't here. Hours went by, until suddenly, a report from a nearby lemon shark. A boy strikingly matching Leo's description was at a cafe in Malta, just a few miles from the Argo II crew.

It was you who had offered to go find him. And you did. He sat incredibly still at a table outside the cafe, not even fidgeting, which he always did. What happened to him? He changed, but not in any discernible way. And he had coffee in front of him. He hated coffee.

When he saw you, he looked up, a small smile forming on his face as he gave you a tiny wave and watched you approach. You had no idea he had been on Ogygia for what felt like weeks to him. No idea at all. And he wasn't sure how to explain that... or how to explain Calypso.