Yeah, Ellie's fine with that. This way of taking care of her when she's not expecting it. It's the taking her food she'll fight about. (Up to a point anyway.)

"No, that sounds cool actually. Did Hermes do that? You said the kids who weren't claimed stayed there."

The gods are weird. The whole thing kinda blows her mind, actually; Clarisse rattles off stuff like this so easily, without context, that she can't help but ask questions.

And part of it was that... well, she wants to know her. To get a glimpse of the kind of world she lived in, the place that shaped her.