<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Riley sighed and looked down before shaking his head. “Yes, Chiron can talk…okay…we’re going to scratch the idea of us going into the forest for now. You’re too new, and I don’t have my sword or shield. Let’s just find a place to sit down, and you can grill me from there. That sound okay?” He walked off to find a table, calculating in his mind the best area with the highest probability for seat availability. From there, he simply followed his feet. He approached a table just when a smaller group of four were getting up to leave. He gave them a nod and sat down.<br/><br/>He set her plate down in front of her and grinned “Now…I had ignored your other question until we had a better chance to talk. My mother is Athena, Goddess of Wisdom, and the greatest general of the gods…no matter what the barbarians over there say” He nudged his chin over at a group of Ares campers and chuckled “Though they are handy in a fight…I’ll give them that. The god of war don’t make wimps, and if he did, he probably killed them himself.” He looked at her and frowned “If you don’t know your parent yet, then you haven’t been claimed. Don’t sweat it too much. A lot of campers aren’t claimed yet. I don’t even know why I was claimed…just lucky, I guess.”<br/><br/>He continued “Right now you’ll have to stay in cabin eleven. That’s Hermes. He’s the god of travelers, so they take in those who have no claim yet. Though it can be a little stuffy, try to bear with it for a little. As to the second part of your question, my counter is what are your hobbies? What did you do right before you got here? Those are clues to your particular questions. One thing you’ll need to understand though. We may figure this out, but that doesn’t make you claimed. The gods don’t run a PTA around here, so seeing them is an event in and of itself. Some of your answers…real answers, will come from your heart.” He finished his little diatribe and waited for her to digest. Somehow, he didn’t think she’d be all that hungry at the moment.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Still unnerved by all that had happened, she just nodded and followed Riley into the hall.  She caught his mention of sword and shield, but didn't say anything about it.  There's just been too much going on for her to care about something as small as that.  At his announcement of his parentage, she gave him a confused look until he explained.  What he said did make sense... even she knew that just being good at fighting doesn't make you good at strategy.<br/><br/>His mention of being claimed was another matter though.  The idea that her father hadn't wanted anything to do with her, she'd accepted that years ago.  But to know that that father was a god and was still such an asshole somehow made it worse.  Her shoulders drooped slightly, and her hair seemed to be a deep brown rather than the brilliant red it had looked by the fire. Despite her feeling of betrayal, she tried to think of things she'd done that might help narrow it down, but couldn't come up with anything too spectacular.<br/><br/>"I... I don't really know.  I mean, I didn't really excel at anything.  I barely made it through school, I'm not popular or musical or anything.  Really the only thing I ever did was be part of the swim team... and even then I wasn't that great until recently.  I just never stood out I guess."  Shrugging, she looked down at her food and pushed it around the plate a bit as she waited to see if he had any ideas.<br/>