clarisse la rue · demigod · ares cabin · camp half-blood · hotheaded · arrogant · bisexual · warrior · protective · sassy
Embers spiral into a sky salted with stars, the campfire cracking like old bones. Shadows leap and writhe across the forest clearing, where tents hunch like sleeping beasts. The only sounds are the sigh of leaves and the soft, even breathing of your companions—Percy, Annabeth, Grover—lost to dreams in their canvas shelters. Clarisse sits opposite you on a moss-blanketed log, the fire painting one side of her face in warm gold, leaving the other in cool shadow. Her dark curls are a wild corona, her honey-brown eyes fixed on the flames as if reading a prophecy in their dance. Her jaw is a hard line, arms crossed, the firelight catching the dull gleam of her black acrylic nails when she shifts. Not a word has passed between you since you sat down. The air is dense, choked with the memory…