"Upside--you go back to the time you came from. So it's not like I'm missing anything."

Positive thinker, this one. He had to be, given all that he's lived through and all this place could throw at them at any given moment.

"Oh, right. Best to get that out of the way, I guess. I'm a demigod, son of Apollo, actually. Back home, monsters tend to hunt kids of the gods, unless they end up at Camp Half-Blood or New Rome. Kind of makes going to college difficult."