User blog comment:SayuriDarling/Full first chapter of The Mark of Athena/@comment-4405022-20120606222553/@comment-128.205.201.146-20120606224839

it no he slowing sown to fight Precy over hesitanting. they dont have lances so they are not jousting so they must have charged at each other but had to slow down to fight. It could just be wargames or something like it for the purpose of who will get to be perator when Luke 2 tells them that percy cant step down. Remember Piper had on the white dress from the blessing on the cover of LH when she was not in the book so the color of the shirts really have no meaning (outside of maybe to make jason and percy stand out from each other)