Nico doesn't really trust people, as a rule—certainly not when they come bearing good news, which always feels like a trap (because he's very jaded and extra cool xoxo.) But he wants to believe her badly enough that he stops fidgeting and looks at her again. "Okay," he says after a moment, deciding that he doesn't think she'd be so calm if she wasn't telling the truth about that. Lev was chill the whole time, but Lev is chill about a lot of things that he probably shouldn't be. He's been through too much.

After a moment, Nico can't stop himself from tacking on: "You're not mad?"