He said this place, Terreille, has been dying for the last five thousand years. A ton of the Blood were killed, or died, or something -- no one knows what really happened. But after that, the land's been dying, and the Blood and landen have been at each other's throats. That's the thing the Queen wants us to fix, apparently. Uh, Terreille, probably not the Blood-landen thing.

He's not lying about something being wrong here. [ he hesitates, then says, ] I can feel it. Nature really is sick.

[ he's no satyr, obviously. grover would be much better suited to telling, or a child of demeter. but percy can sense the water, and the river felt fundamentally wrong. even the fish chatter indicated that the river wasn't as good a home as it used to be. ]

Though, that doesn't explain why the Queen chose to ask us for help now, if this has been going on for millennia.

There's something else too. The magic the Queen did to bring us here? Nearly killed her. That's what Allairavar was so upset about. He probably thinks if she tried to send us back, that'd finish the job.

But here's the thing. He said she didn't tell anyone what she was doing. That morning, she told her First Circle that she was going to work some powerful magic. She warned them that something was going to happen. And then that night, surprise, the Hunter Guild showed up to kill us. I don't think that's a coincidence. Somehow, they found out, and decided to try to stop her. I guess killing us didn't seem like a big deal if it meant throwing a wrench in her plans, whatever they are.