"You could probably get tattooed back at the Pole," Nico answered, raising her eyebrows at him. She was totally unmoved by his puppy eyes. He could be as freaking adorable as he wanted, it wasn't making her insides feel soft and squishy at all. "There's pictures of North everywhere, there's no way that there aren't things for tattooing people like us. You could look at it and go I got this in Santa's workshop instead of I got this in an awful hellhole of a universe where I had to fake being a jackbooted thug for several weeks."

She sighed again, more heavily.

"But if you really, really want to, fine."