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Get some great food and chat with your siblings or anyone else brave enough to sit with your table.

Irene walked in and sat at the Zeus table.

Jackie followed and chewed her lip. Percy was out with Annabeth so she would he sitting by herself today.

Irene saw Jackie and waved her over, inviting her to the table.

Jackie grabbed her food and after offering some to the gods went to the Zeus table.

"Hi again." Irene said

"Hey." She said with a smile.

"I love this part of the day, perfect light level, the food, everything." She said with a contented sigh

"Yeah I guess." Jackie said, amused.

"Yep." She said nodding, tuning out

Jackie ate and asked Irene how she liked camp so far.

"It's pretty fun. I'm still learning how to fight with my weapons better." She jangled her braclets when she said weapons.

"Even if it comes naturally to us it still takes a while to get really good." She said, remembering how long it had taken her to get a handle on her sword.

"That makes sense." She said thoughtfully.

"But you'll be decapitating gorgons in no time." She said cheerfully.

"Hahaha, sounds exciting!" She said with a grin.

"Be careful if you see Medusa though, she should be in Tartarus for a while longer but you never know." She warned.

"Yeah she would be one to watch for wouldn't she. I've heard stories."

"Yeah she used to own a place where she kept the statues of people she turned to stone." She said and shivered, thinking of all those poor people.

"Oh my gosh that's terrible!" Irene said, shuddering.

"Yeah. I mean some bad stuff happened to her but that doesn't give her the right to turn people to stone just for stopping by!" She said and waved her fork around for emphasis.

"Agreed, that's just sick." Irene almost shouted.

"But my brother and his friends stopped her a few years ago and she hasn't turned up since thankfully." She said.

"That's definitely a good thing." She said. "Doesn't medusa hate all children of Poseidon?" She asked

"Um yeah pretty much. She blames him for what happened to her." She said, shrugging.

"It seems most of these Ancient Greek folk blame stuff on everyone else." Irene stated.

Jackie had finished her food and rested her cheek against her palm which was propped up on the table. "They can't just forgive and forget. They have to hold it against each other. It takes a lot for them to let the past go." She said.

"Yeah, though things would be so much easier if they could just get along." She said her eyes crossing slightly in frustration.

"Probably." She said, looking up at the sky again. Clouds had rolled in but there was no lightning yet at least.

Irene eyed the clouds, wanting to go back to the lake. "Is it weird that I'm a daughter of Zeus yet I prefer being closer to lakes, rivers, etcetera?

"Yep that's pretty weird. Especially since I'm deathly afraid of flying." She said.

"Oh. Oh well, being different is good." She said with a smile

"Be careful around water Irene. My dad doesn't take kindly to children of Zeus." Jackie said, a wrinkle in her brow.

"I know, but it's so beautiful, especially right now when it reflects the sunlight and the sky toward sunset." She said, almost in a breathless whisper.

"Just don't fall in." She said.

"I wouldn't get too close anyway. I can't swim.."

She nodded. "I wouldn't expect you to."

"I wanted to learn but my mom said that even if I had the best teacher if always sink like a stone and drown." She said glumly

"Yeah, that would be my dad's doing. If I tried to go up in a plane your dad would probably zap it with lightning and kill everyone inside." She said.

"I hate that our parents can't get past the fact that we do want some normality in our screwed up lives." She said with a frown on her face.

"Depends on what you mean by normal. This is normal for us. It wouldn't be normal if we were full humans though." She said and shrugged.

"True. I meant I wish we could live more like a normal human can, not worrying about a monster appearing out of nowhere, not worrying about the gods vaporizing you for saying the wrong thing. Just being a normal human being." She finally took a breath at the end of all of that.

"Yeah. They don't care as much about humans." Jackie said.

"It annoys me.." She said with a frown.

"It's life. We just gotta live with it." She said and shrugged.

"Yeah" she said kind of coldly.

"What?" She asked, confused.

"I was agreeing with you." She said

(One Piece?)

"Oh." She said, finishing off her food.

(One sec)

She nodded and picked at her food.