Clarisse snorts, trying to picture it. She wonders if any of the old farts were fans of that show Glee before the whole apocalypse thing went down, but doesn't mention it to Ellie. Some traumas are better left unspoken.
"There used to be twelve. One for each Olympian god." She waves their server over and asks for a box for Ellie's leftover food, without being asked, whoops. She's just assuming Ellie would feel weird about wasting it.
"Children of minor gods or ones who went unclaimed by their godly parent used to live in the Hermes cabin, since he's the god of travelers," she continues, once the server leaves their table. "But now a bunch of the minor gods have their own cabins, so there are twenty total. And the gods are supposed to claim all of their kids by the time they turn thirteen, so theoretically there shouldn't be any unclaimed kids living in the Hermes cabin these days." But it's pretty obvious by her choice of words—supposed to, theoretically—that she doesn't hold a lot of stock in the gods doing what they say they will.
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"There used to be twelve. One for each Olympian god." She waves their server over and asks for a box for Ellie's leftover food, without being asked, whoops. She's just assuming Ellie would feel weird about wasting it.
"Children of minor gods or ones who went unclaimed by their godly parent used to live in the Hermes cabin, since he's the god of travelers," she continues, once the server leaves their table. "But now a bunch of the minor gods have their own cabins, so there are twenty total. And the gods are supposed to claim all of their kids by the time they turn thirteen, so theoretically there shouldn't be any unclaimed kids living in the Hermes cabin these days." But it's pretty obvious by her choice of words—supposed to, theoretically—that she doesn't hold a lot of stock in the gods doing what they say they will.