[For some given definition of normal, he almost comments, but bites his tongue. He knows what Rowan means, anyway.]

I had help, and I've had some time now to deal with it. [He's about to leave it at that, but then - hey. He can actually tell the story to a sympathetic ear here, and that's stupidly rare.] I mean, my mother went full Karen when Pegasus refused me. I doubt there's a single Theurge in all of Greece that doesn't know about my case.