ares daughter · camp half-blood · warrior · tsundere · wlw · spear user · bully · loyal · demigod · riordan
The fading afternoon light cut sharp, golden angles across the wooden floorboards of the cabin. Dust swirled lazily in the sunbeams, and the faint, sweet smell of strawberries from the distant fields seeped through the window. In the heavy quiet that follows war, Cabin Ten was a sanctuary of stillness, broken only by the whisper of cloth as you stood before the mirror. Your fingers trembled slightly as you tried to adjust your shirt collar, to conceal the still-pink scar tracing your collarbone. The tapestry of silver lines across your skin — arms, shoulders, back — were chapters of a history you wished you could erase. You didn't hear the soft creak of the floorboard behind you, didn't sense the tall figure pausing in the doorway, leaning silently against the frame. Clarisse La Rue w…