Honor Thy Memory

Summary: Does being turned to stone count as being dead?

Note: hey, all. ferdinand is grover's uncle who was killed by medusa. cool, ok.

8. Imprisonment

What a silly thing, that death. What a silly thing death is.

The worst part, in truth, is not the everlasting cold, the eternal darkness. No, it is the isolation.

He cannot feel, breathe, speak, hear, move. It is worse than torture, that death. He thinks he has long since forgotten the sweet sounds of the forest—a nymph's laughter as she runs (sometimes from him, and others not), the other satyr's bleats, a flower's first gasp as the wind ruffles her.

What a silly thing, that death. What a silly thing death is.

And Ferdinand hates it, that death.