If you read the most recent two pages, that should be enough as the characters are all meeting to discuss a new threat and it gets covered in those posts
I was wanting them to be temporarily solid, only for that part. That's why they had to hurry and they disappeared. Also, the woman, she wasn't actually holding their hands, she made them thought they were.
The thing about plummeting downhill at fifty miles an hour on a snack platter - if you realize it's a bad idea when you're halfway down, it's too late. — Rick Riordan, The Son of Neptune