She'd secretly had a crush on him since they were twelve years old. Last summer, she'd fallen for him hard.

“The Princess Andromeda?""Went ka-boom.”

“Her freckles were orange, as if somebody had spray-painted her face with liquid…”

“I held out a lead figurine of Hades—the little Mythomagic statue Nico had aband…”

“Her perfume was a mixture of roses and tear gas.”