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PANDORA AND PERCY STARED up at the ceiling of the compartment, having another dream about their moms and the weird lantern guy, they stayed silent for a moment, hearing the light snores of daphne and grover.
The seven of them all stayed in a compartment, daphne on top with grover's arm thrown over her face and leah nearly falling off, midas and annabeth on the bottom, staring blankly at ceiling and percy and pandora on the floor.
Percy exhaled heavily, "Hey, you asleep?" he said quietly, "Yes." Annabeth said after a moment.
"You and thalia were really close, right?" He asked.
"Yeah." Percy stayed quiet before speaking up. "What was she like?"
"Why?" She questioned, "She was the last forbidden kid before us, right? She must've dealt with the same kind of stuff."
"She was tough. I mean, she knew she was a forbidden kid, she just didn't care. When luke, thalia and leah found me, luke and leah cared for me right away. But thalia..she made me earn it."
"Is that why you give us a hard time?" Pandora spoke up, "We gotta earn it with you too?" Annabeth sighed deeply. "Yeah. Maybe."
"I gotta say, that doesn't make a lot of sense to me."
"What doesn't make sense to you?"
"The way you guys all talk. The way the gods want us to think. Gotta burn an offering to get a parent's attention. Gotta beat up on clarisse just to get our fathers to admit they're our fathers. It isn't supposed to work that way. People who are close to you aren't supposed to treat you that way."
"you wanna know i ended up alone on the road in the first place?" Annabeth asked. "i started out as a gift to my father. That's how it works with athena. We're born from a thought in her mind, and then given to a partner she feels connected to. And for a while, i was treated like a gift. My father cared for me. He loved me. I knew it."
