[Percy raises another point, and Vanessa nods slowly, pressing her lips together into a thin line. She doesn't know how to explain that either.] All I can figure is that things like that couldn't have been pulled in by the Emperor. Maybe there are portals! Things fall through boundaries all the time. [Her fingers search out the amulet that's always around her neck, holding it tightly. Things fall through, they have to.]
Advanced, or it's magic. [She glances at Annabeth, to Percy, and back again.] Nothing here makes sense.
[A pause, and she flashes a smile at Percy.] Not a charmer, I take it? [Maybe it's not really about conversation steering. Maybe it's the topic itself that the Emperor likes, and the way someone approaches it.]
Yeah, I get that. Both the whole people have been suspecting that maybe they are, and that it totally sucks to have who you are stripped from you. [Both things she has gone through, here and back home.] But there are a lot of people here who don't know about the explosion, and probably more that either didn't see Percy's revelation. [A beat.] Maybe sometimes keeping information from people is the only way to save them.
[Vanessa lifts her hand, moving it in a so-so fashion at Annabeth's last question.] Okay, maybe not pleased exactly, but I get the feeling that a lot of people were asking about rations and the turtle being sick rather than anything about the cloning facility. That might be why she told me about the clones, because I asked something she hadn't even been asked yet.
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Advanced, or it's magic. [She glances at Annabeth, to Percy, and back again.] Nothing here makes sense.
[A pause, and she flashes a smile at Percy.] Not a charmer, I take it? [Maybe it's not really about conversation steering. Maybe it's the topic itself that the Emperor likes, and the way someone approaches it.]
Yeah, I get that. Both the whole people have been suspecting that maybe they are, and that it totally sucks to have who you are stripped from you. [Both things she has gone through, here and back home.] But there are a lot of people here who don't know about the explosion, and probably more that either didn't see Percy's revelation. [A beat.] Maybe sometimes keeping information from people is the only way to save them.
[Vanessa lifts her hand, moving it in a so-so fashion at Annabeth's last question.] Okay, maybe not pleased exactly, but I get the feeling that a lot of people were asking about rations and the turtle being sick rather than anything about the cloning facility. That might be why she told me about the clones, because I asked something she hadn't even been asked yet.