I am a strategist. [ it's out before she really thinks about it, though it's probably not a particularly startling statement from annabeth. ]

[ she frowns and eats another bite of cake. it seems a bit at odds with where her mind is at, but it's really tasty. ]

I was in the middle of a war too, before I woke up here. [ she doesn't know the exact state of it, isn't even sure how much of it she missed in tartarus. tartarus itself feels like a whole other war. ]

And I'm always prepared, or at least I try to be. I know war and strategy as much as I know what happens in the lull in between. It's just... part of me.

[ she pauses. ] My mother - I've never told you who she was, have I? [ it seems strange, given she hasn't felt the need to be secretive about it anymore, and perhaps it's not very surprising to anyone who comes to know anything about annabeth as a person. ] I'm a child of Athena. War is literally in my blood.