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[bornofwisdom]

Great. Just great. How did this even happen? Where is this?

I don’t recognize any of the structures around here from any books I’ve read or Daedalus’ research, even…
( soft sigh ) Okay, talk it out, Annabeth…

Not Greek in make, so definitely not randomly somewhere in Olympus. And, it’s not Western American make either, or Eastern American for that matter… It’s just not American whatsoever. I didn’t… Fall through a crack into the Underworld, or…? ( muttering to herself a moment )

Dangit. Mom—!? Is this some sort of sudden quest—!? Chiron—!? Hello!?

( and then the inevitable tone of exasperation rings through ) Ugh, Gods! How do you go from showing plans to Zeus for a new throne room and end up — wherever the heck this is!? All I wanted to do today was get my plans together for the council room and…

Maybe I have some drachmas… If I can find some water to contact the Gods, or Percy, or…

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[waterproofed]

[oh my gods is this really happening? He hasn't heard this voice in what feels like years!]

dictated, derp

[waterproofed]

Annabeth!! Hey, it's me! Where are you?

dictated.

[bornofwisdom]

Percy? ( well that saved the drachmas. )

I don't know where I am! ( she just said that! boys, why do you never listen? ) I don't recognize any of this area whatsoever.

dictated

[waterproofed]

[psh of course he wasn't listening] Okay. Um, you're probably down in the lobby. Most people show up there. Just stay where you are and I'll come down.

[curse you tower and your stupid stairs]

dictated

[bornofwisdom]

( down? lobby? what. what. what is this. ) Lobby? Percy, where is this? What's going on?

( stairs, the bane of everyone's existences ever. )

dictated

[waterproofed]

[aw, the endless questions of Annabeth Chase. How he has missed them. Percy has decided to slide down the banister instead to get to the first floor faster. Whee!]

Yeah, you're in a castle. ... Or at least I hope you showed up in the castle. When I got here I arrived in the lake.

But anyway, it's a giant magical castle and the lobby is the first floor. There's all kinds of rooms and stuff.

dictated

[bornofwisdom]

( sliding down the banister, so childish. only Percy. all her head shaking. )

The lake. ( her lips form a thin line and she just finds herself nodding her head, because what else can she do right now? ) Must have felt right at home.

( water and all, RIGHT? excellent. but let's get back to that whole magic castle thing... ) Magical castle? What—? How—?

[doublethefun]

[wow. She totally did not understand pretty much everything this person said.]

Why wouldst thou need water?

[bornofwisdom]

Oh, well that's—

( crap. how to explain to a mortal without giving everything away never mind that she has no idea it's a pony )

—the rainbows created in the light reflecting on water is how to form an Iris message link, so... ( oh well, she's not giving away big secrets just yet anyway. )

[doublethefun]

A rainbow may certainly be used as a signal of some sort, but I have ne'er heard of one that is capable of conveying messages.

[curious, curious]

[bornofwisdom]

It's sort of a... ( er, how to explain? ) —trick.

[doublethefun]

Magic, is it?

[message by rainbow is closer to what she's used to. Unlike all those modern, electronic doohickeys.]

[bornofwisdom]

Well, something like that, yes.

[assassino]

[Curious Italian here, from a time period obsessed with classical history:]

Zeus? Are you a pagan?

[bornofwisdom]

A pagan? In a manner of speaking, I suppose one could say that...

[assassino]

Interesting. Yet you know of the Americas, so you could not be from my time... when are you from?

[bornofwisdom]

When? I'm from the twenty-first century.

[assassino]

Oh. [He's actually pretty surprised.]

Most people I have met from the twenty-first century do not believe in Gods, and I have been told none who believe in the Greek gods still live.

[bornofwisdom]

( she just laughs )

Of course they do, Gods are immortal. But no, a lot of people don't believe in them so much anymore. Just because they don't think about them all the time, though, doesn't make them any less real.

[youhavebeenflynned]

Olympus? Are you from the Greece by any chance?

[bornofwisdom]

No, not at all. I'm from San Francisco, actually.

[youhavebeenflynned]

OK. Seeing as Olympus is very present in Greek Mythology I assumed. Are you interested in Mythology then?

[bornofwisdom]

It's present in Greek Mythology, of course. Um. ( she pauses in thought at his question for a moment. ) I suppose you could say that, yes.

[youhavebeenflynned]

Me too. I recently lead an expedition to Shangri-La. Ever heard of that place?

[bornofwisdom]

Shangri-La, sure. That's somewhere in Nepal, isn't it?