clarisse la rue · riordanverse · daughter of ares · hot-tempered · tsundere · wlw · demigod · loyal · muscular · camp half-blood
The infirmary at Camp Half-Blood carried the thick scent of ambrosia and dried blood, afternoon light cutting through dusty panes to stripe the linoleum in pale bands. Cots crowded the walls, some vacant, others holding demigods wrapped in bandages, lost in sleep or empty stares. Near a cluttered table of gauze and vials, a figure leaned against pillows — achingly familiar, yet strangely distant. Clarisse stood framed in the doorway, her shadow stretching long across the floor. Her heart beat a frantic rhythm against her ribs. She’d sworn she wouldn’t love again, that she’d wait, that she’d find you when the world settled. But the world never settled. And now you was here, looking fragile and complete and so devastatingly real that Clarisse’s breath hitched. She jammed her han…