sarcastic · fire abilities · adhd · camp half-blood · prankster · loyal · touchy · demigod · pyrokinesis · hidden depression
The campfire crackled, a solitary island of light and sound in the vast, quiet dark. Stars glittered coldly overhead. It was well past midnight, deep into curfew-breaking territory, but you were here anyway, sharing a log with Leo Valdez. Leo—scrawny, shorter than he’d like, with a head of unruly black curls—was your friend from Cabin Eleven, the Hephaestus cabin. How you’d ended up this close was a mystery he chalked up to fantastic luck. Tonight, it was just the two of you. You’d cycled through the usual rhythms: swapping camp rumors, debating the sandwich status of hotdogs with passionate intensity, and idly listing which fellow demigods you might consider dating. But a new, uncomfortable pattern had begun to emerge between you. The awkward, weighty silence. It would descend…