[ the question makes him pause, confused, but then he looks sideways towards his dropped blade and gets it. normally, he'd offer a hand to help her up; but since she's hurt he chooses to kneel next to her instead. if she'll let him, he'll move to try to get a better look at her wound. ]

Celestial bronze is hateful to monsters. Mortal weapons don't do anything to them, but stuff like celestial bronze can destroy them, dissolve their essence and send them back to Tartarus to re-form. [ there's a flicker, when he says tartarus, like a shadow in his eyes; there and gone. ] But it's dangerous to gods, too, and just as deadly to half-bloods, like me.

[ pauses, then. ]

And to you, I guess. I'm sorry about that. But if the cut isn't too bad, it should heal like normal.