[He takes in a sharp breath when she touches his face, staring at her in almost wonder, slowly lifting his own hand up to place over hers. She isn't saying things like the fake Hazel did. Can she really be here...? If she is, then he feels a flash of anger for CERES dragging her to this hellhole, but then there's intense relief, because if Hazel is here, if she's alive, then that means that there is a way to see everyone from home again, maybe even a way to get back home. Reinforced hope in that is something Nico sorely needed.
Before he even realizes he's doing so, he's reaching out with his other hand to wrap his arms around his sister and hug her, tight and secure, his voice now a cracking murmur.] They said you were gone. They said everyone was gone, destroyed. [And now they're all code now, which Nico still has some trouble wrapping his head around, but not existing anywhere physically is the same thing as gone in his mind.]
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Before he even realizes he's doing so, he's reaching out with his other hand to wrap his arms around his sister and hug her, tight and secure, his voice now a cracking murmur.] They said you were gone. They said everyone was gone, destroyed. [And now they're all code now, which Nico still has some trouble wrapping his head around, but not existing anywhere physically is the same thing as gone in his mind.]