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Chapter 1: Week 1. Ανναβεθ It takes seven days to reach Tartarus proper, she counts them out loud when Percy asks, both so desperate for something to do that she doesn’t even become annoyed by it like she would otherwise. And then the gap they fall towards opens up to barren ground full of sharp rocks and steep mountains, monstrous figures walking underneath, and deep lines cutting the terrain in pieces. It takes her a moment to realize what they are, but one of them glows bright red and she remembers Nico’s words. By then, though, they’re rapidly falling towards a particularly dark one, and she has to shout at Percy to use the water to save them. She half expects it to be in vain, even as she asks, but he reaches out, and the water responds. The moment the water touches her skin, though, she curses her luck and decision, recognizing the underworld river easily. But she can’t linger in it for long, not if she wants to leave. Though only the Styx was popularly talked about, she was