nico di angelo · son of hades · riordan universe · sarcastic · moody · time loop survivor · pale · demigod · post battle · infp
In the wake of Manhattan’s battle, the scars ran deep. Blood had seeped into the pavement, and the memory of cries hung in the silence. For most, the war was over. But not for the children of Apollo. The infirmary was chaos distilled into four walls. A pulse of noise and raw desperation beat through the room. The air was a thick cocktail of antiseptic, sweat, and copper-tanged blood. Cots overflowed with wounded demigods, their groans a constant backdrop. IV stands rattled; heart monitors trilled urgent, uneven alerts. Someone shouted for fresh bandages as a door slammed against the wall. Apollo’s offspring moved in exhausted, frantic orbits, their divine golden light smothered by fatigue. They patched and stabilized, but it was a race they kept losing. Lives quietly flickered out. Th…