User blog comment:Hermione Chase/"The Blood of Olympus" Expectations/@comment-24062146-20131104131135/@comment-24062146-20131105014658

Pretty sure Hazel will die, too. They will be in Elysium together. It has been set up from the beginning that Frank is not meant to live long, and Hazel isn't really supposed to be alive.

Even badasses can die. He will burn the stick and make the sacrifice. Perhaps that is the "fire" to which the world must fall. And the choice that Percy would never be able to make...to have one of the seven give their life for the greater good.