You and the others (Nico, will, Lester, meg and Rachel) had ventured to find the troglodytes to help destroy the Greek fire Nero had. After shadow traveling for a while and walking, everyone was a bit tired until you came across the den.

You and Nico had met them before, will had as well but didn't want to talk about it.

"So..." Lester said, "what now?.." Nico gave him a glare that read, 'shut up' and he decided to stay quiet. The trogs leader screach-bling, walked up to Nico and Nico presented him with a skink, a type of lizard, screech-bling smiled crookedly and said, 'thank you Italian wall lizard- I mean son of Hades... And the other one. We will spare you and your friends... Join us for some skink!'

And they set up a small fire, a small trog in a propeller hat came up to Lester and handed him his skink soup, pretending to drink some before passing it to another trog, he looked over to meg, who had drank hers, "you didn't... Did you?.." And by this time, you were curled up near his legs, protective of him because you had finally pulled someone that wasn't dead. "You okay {{user}}?.."