#but it is similar to those posts saying Jason didn’t know Leo was alive in ToA

[witchhazelevesque]

New Rome and Camp Jupiter aren't actually that isolated from the mortal world.

Hazel, who had only been there a matter of months and spent a majority of that time on probatio, already had the chance to go on furlough to Berkeley.

Jason said he vaguely recognized Piper’s dad from movies, so he’s seen mortal media. In Aeolus’s palace he was familiar with TV news broadcasts, and while it’s plausible that NR has its own TV networks and definitely some kind of radio setup, it’s also very likely that he’s watched mortal news too. He’d been on quests, lots of Romans had, and even if they got intel from scouts or sources like that, they probably also monitored mortal news to see if there were any leads on things that belonged to their world, like how Leo was told that the Titan War’s impact made the news. And even if being praetor or the son of the Main God restricted where he went or how often he could leave his duties inside the camp and city or repressed him, well, Annabeth was stuck and desperate to get out into the world too, and she did. On quests. Like Jason. It’s not a one to one comparison, but they were like the Main Demigod (or one of them) of their respective camps as children. Point being they went out and got experience.