[ There’s a lot of assumptions in that, and maybe Nico wouldn’t mind them, if they didn’t make him feel like everything he’s had to struggle with was small and inconsequential. ]

My world doesn’t have superheroes, humans don’t know about magic, and I had to figure out how phones and the internet work because demigods can’t use them without attracting every monster in ten miles. And I don’t have a lifetime of movie references and music. I don’t even have my lifetime of memories.

[ Why is he telling Huvrye this? He doesn’t owe him anything. Just because he knows what it’s like to play catch up? He’s Hunter’s friend, or Jason’s, but he hasn’t told them much of it either. ]

Just listen more than you talk. You’ll figure it out.