Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24041084-20140907220850

I'm reading Percy Jackson's Greek Gods (By the way totally awesome and full of that Percy humor we all love) and I'm to part in Hades does home improvement where Percy starts talking about the river Cocytus. And that got me thinking about the part in the House of Hades in the beginning where Percy and Annabeth fall in that very same river. Percy talks about how he knows what it's like to be near it. He then start's to describe what it would be like if you touched it. Stating that you could never be happy again. But Percy was happy after, so did he actually touch that water, or did he just use his powers like with the Lethe? 