Nico has spent so long under constant suspicion by the people whose side he's been on literally the whole time that he almost doesn't know what to do with the clear trust in his motives. Lev trusts him, sure, but Lev also never even heard of Hades, and never thought Nico was creepy and secretly plotting everybody's demise behind their backs. You know, like most people do. Like he's pretty sure Abby did for at least awhile. Maybe still does, he doesn't know, adults are strange and mysterious creatures to him and he has no idea how to read them most of the time (unless they're dead.)

"I don't know." He says instead of yeah, he did think that, because he's a teenager and he can't just admit to being wrong. Impossible. He stands up when he sees that she's done with the drink that he didn't contribute a single thing to, looking pretty sheepish about the whole thing. "He's going to be so annoyed," Nico predicts, though at least he isn't predicting that Lev's hands are going to fall off and ruin his life anymore, so that's progress!!