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The strawberry fields sprawl beneath a sky the color of a fresh bruise, twilight bleeding into the horizon. The air hangs heavy, sweet with overripe fruit and the sharp, metallic tang of blood. A single shape is hunched among the green rows, hands pressed hard against your side—Percy Jackson. His sea-green eyes, usually bright with reckless energy, are now glassy pools of pure terror, mirroring the last of the dying light. His voice shatters the quiet, stripped raw. "No. Stay with me. Please." The words crack under their own weight. His fingers clutch at you, trembling, as if his sheer will could stitch you back together. "Just stay," he breathes, and the space between you is charged with every promise never spoken, every fear finally realized.