If Soldat asks, Jason will try his best to answer some of those questions -- some of it would be more difficult to explain than others. But it was the start, in a way, to Jason and Nico becoming friends at all. Which, honestly, the memory probably made it seem like they weren't going to be friends. Things had gotten better though.

The feeling was familiar. The main difference of course was that Jason hadn't started from scratch so often that his own memories were scrambled and lost completely. The memory had definitely given him a better sense for what Soldat was going through now -- familiar feelings and people just out of reach. A constant 'tip of the tongue' syndrome that had to be frustrating.

"Training kids can be hard." says the sixteen year old, but he did have some experience of his own at it. Lupa just started their training, you still had a lot to learn once you reached camp, "You seemed pretty good at it. And I definitely have seen you be good at it here. You have a lot of patience."