[Demigods are crazy that way, it seems. He isn't remotely surprised that she asks the question though he's lingering on an answer. Instead, he addresses the first piece.]
That's because you and your siblings are all over-the-top overachievers. I'd hate to see what any of you would do with "partial passing."
[He doodles again, little lines that mean nothing though she'll probably recognize some drawings. A pegasus from the front of the CHB shirts, Thalia's pine tree, the owl carved over the door of Cabin 6. Simple little things to fill in the space of time he doesn't have an answer.]
Annabeth, I think it's a little late for me to be testing you. We're on our way to the Nuwa, what do you think? [Annabeth has always been a priority even when Kronos had brainwashed him. In his own fucked-up way he tried to protect her, sort of. Now knowing she was a ship away, he'd still do whatever he could to reach her. Did she pass the reality test? Even if she was a different Annabeth than the one he remembered, she was still an Annabeth. That was enough.]
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That's because you and your siblings are all over-the-top overachievers. I'd hate to see what any of you would do with "partial passing."
[He doodles again, little lines that mean nothing though she'll probably recognize some drawings. A pegasus from the front of the CHB shirts, Thalia's pine tree, the owl carved over the door of Cabin 6. Simple little things to fill in the space of time he doesn't have an answer.]
Annabeth, I think it's a little late for me to be testing you. We're on our way to the Nuwa, what do you think? [Annabeth has always been a priority even when Kronos had brainwashed him. In his own fucked-up way he tried to protect her, sort of. Now knowing she was a ship away, he'd still do whatever he could to reach her. Did she pass the reality test? Even if she was a different Annabeth than the one he remembered, she was still an Annabeth. That was enough.]