![]() ![]() We both know that, don’t we?”Īnnabeth swallowed. “The harpy Ella…it was a prophecy she spoke. “There’s more.” Reyna snapped her fingers, and her golden dog, Aurum, trotted over. The past few days, they had been looking to her for orders-even Jason, who could have pulled rank as the son of Jupiter, and Coach Hedge, who didn’t take orders from anyone. But she wondered if her friends on the Argo II would agree. Not leaders of dangerous quests.”Īnnabeth started to object that she wasn’t the leader of the quest. “They might be craftsmen, artists, maybe advisers, but not warriors. And even if your camp had children of Minerva-” No wonder the Romans had been giving her strange looks. ![]() “Got it.” Annabeth’s hot chocolate suddenly tasted like dust. ![]() So the idea that a maiden goddess would have children-” The Vestal Virgins, for instance…if they broke their vows and fell in love with anyone, they would be buried alive. “But Romans take vows of maidenhood very seriously. “I understand that you Greeks don’t see things the same way,” Reyna continued. People usually asked her whether or not she had a belly button, since she had been born magically. Talking about that always made Annabeth feel self-conscious, like she was some sort of freak. She didn’t want to get into the details of Athena’s children-how they were born straight from the mind of the goddess, just as Athena herself had sprung from the head of Zeus. The idea that Minerva would have children-frankly, it’s a little shocking to us.” You won’t find any children of Minerva here. She’s also a maiden goddess, like Diana…the one you call Artemis. She’s the goddess of crafts and wisdom…but she isn’t really a goddess of war. “I take it Minerva isn’t…uh, quite as respected here?” ![]()
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