[...it's unfortunate that his default reaction is to snort with vague amusement. Yeah. Yeah, he didn't think anybody would be expecting that and a hand comes up to scrub at his scar a bit out of habit. The nice thing, Luke thinks, is that doing all of this really hopefully will change something. It's just up to Percy and Annabeth now.]

Exactly. If I get out of here, I get back so I can try again. But people get desperate enough here... "hey, why not go after the guy who's already dead?" [But...] I won't remember anything from my former life once I go through rebirth. I won't remember my name, I won't remember everything I did in my life as Luke Castellan, and I won't remember Annabeth, Thalia, Percy or Grover. [Let's just throw new names into the mix.] The thing about people like us is that if a hero dies and successfully gets into Elysium three times, they can go to a place called the Isle of Blest. It's the ultimate paradise. But that means continuing to live and be a hero those three times. Annabeth, Percy and Grover were all in the throne room during the final battle. They all know I'm going for rebirth. [But not Thalia. And it sucks...but he can't exactly dwell on that.]

[There's a pause.] You know this means you can't hide anything from me after I just told you all of that, don't you.