User blog comment:Hyperborean/"The House of Hades" – official expectations blog/@comment-69.127.161.128-20121113030755/@comment-4649443-20121116042510

@Dark Good point. Change the narrative to:

Thanatos:Even if I wanted to, I can't take his soul.

Annabeth: Why not!?

Thanatos: First of all, it's too dangerous, to go down there, even for me. I'm not going to risk it...

Annabeth:(whispered) Coward.

Thanatos:..second, he's not dead.

Annabeth:What!?

Thanatos: He would have died, but Gaea's minions healed his wounds by throwing him in a river. Or at least, I think they did.

Frank: Why would they do that?

Thanatos: They need him alive for the sacrifice....

Annabeth: ^&%$#, now he'll have to be rescued again.

Jason; Let's make sure, it's successfully this time.

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There are to ways for this scenario to go on. Either it continues in the next book, or it still goes on in HoH.