With luck, you'll never have to. [But Nico recognizes when a conversation is getting uncomfortable. Gods know he'd been a wreck in the wake of Bianca's death.]

Exactly right. [And it hurts a lot, but he's trying not to be selfish about it. It's hard, though. It's hard to not be bitter about it.] Heroes automatically go to Elysium. Regular mortals can go there by doing more good than bad, but if they did something horrific, such as murder, then they get sent to the Fields of Punishment, Tartarus, or, if you seriously messed up, then there were worse punishments that my dad would personally create.