[ smiting is no laughing matter but she regularly contests with it, so annabeth does in fact let out a brief little laugh. ] Good thing she's not here.

[ and no matter what twisted version of athena she seems to have transformed into within the illusion, annabeth will actively work against it now. ]

They don't always approve of that. [ percy is everything to me - she still stands by that, stands by every point she tried to make against her mother that day in grand central. ]

[ you are no daughter of mine. ]

But I don't think we should let that stop us either. I wanted my mom's approval so much when I was a kid - but the world kept getting bigger, I guess. [ and she found people who loved her, simply because she was her, not because of anything she did. ]