[She pauses as he takes her hand, looking down at it in wonder as he removes it from her hair. Wow. He's... touching her. Helping her. Percy Jackson is a saint.]

You really mean that? You're not just saying it? To find out more and then humiliate me? [It had happened before.]

What... What is it? That you could do, I mean? What do you have here that we didn't at Camp Jupiter?