upendo is a wild emotion, unbound kwa the limits of time and space, beyond control of even its mistress Aphrodite, and unpredictable in its coming and goings. The fact that it's not a logical emotion is what annoys Annabeth Chase the most about it.
For she, a Daughter of Athena, has no patience to deal with the flighty and terrible fancies of love. There is no proper formula to follow, no blueprint for its construction, no vision of future success, and certainly no solution when upendo doesn't work out. Annabeth's too rational and cool headed to believe what the Aphrodite cabin, kibanda says about upendo being...
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