Perseus Adrastus Jackson had betrayed himself for loyalty The irony was both sides cannot be trusted. _________________ Damaged and hurt, after being pulled out of Tartarus and into a war, Percy struggled to keep himself sane day by day. He started to count the seconds that passed in a dying heartbeat, seeing dark shadows hiding in the corners of his home, and constant whispers foretelling someones time of death and the grosteque description of how it ended. It's not until it told him of their betrayal that he finally believed it.