[ ha, she made an adult laugh. or close enough. in her defense, maybe they did smell! she's used to demigods having a tasty aroma to monsters. ]

[ she wrinkles her nose. ] Makes sense. Communities sometimes have to watch out for their own. [ and strange people being summoned like this... yeah, it doesn't take a lot of thought for her to see why some locals might be wary. ]

[ annabeth considers what he says about the crown, and the almost careful way he puts the sentence together. she's been thinking about the monarchy here too, what it means to the people, what it means to the summoned, but if this is a gods-are-always-listening sort of situation, she assumed she'd have to be careful about it. ]

What? [ excuse her, distracted for a moment, as her brain comes back around to connect what thing he means. ] Oh, the language. Well, it's certainly convenient, to have it so quickly.

[ and she jumps right back into what she thinks is the better question, probably a little more blunt than it should be or even need be. ] Are we allowed to talk about the Crown freely? Is it just Nott that associates us with them, or are other places like that too?

[ sorry buddy you've opened the question floodgates by simply engaging with her. ]