[He's not perfect, and he knows that better than anyone. But his protective instincts? Oh Poseidon, you do not mess with anyone he cares about. He will end you. The hug, yeah, is unexpected. Kind of awkward, not gonna lie. She ducks away before he can recover and return it, and he's left reaching out to her kind of halfway before raising that hand to run it through his own hair, making it even more messy than it was before.]

Did you do it? Everyone thought I'd killed my mom a few years ago- [yep that's totally a flash of a very dark look over his face but he pushes it away quickly] -but we'd been attacked by the Minotaur coming here for the first time and then she was kidnapped by a god. The Mist can make things pretty crazy sometimes.

[He... won't comment on the insane thing just yet. But he knows who to go to to ask about it in the future...]