I hope it gets better. [There's genuine sort of sympathy there. Because parents. And it might be different situations entirely, but Annabeth will always feel for that.]

[She can't help but half-smirk at the natural genius remark though; she never gets tired of it.] All children of Athena are. [Because she picks up on the tone, too, and she can't help the implication of "but I'm the best" that slips out with her own.] But yeah, assuming you make it there alive, you learn how to survive being a demigod. I've been going since I was seven, and I was a year-rounder till I was twelve.

Small things to be grateful for, I guess.