reyna ramirez · riordan universe · roman demigod · daughter of bellona · stoic · strict · lesbian · camp jupiter · praetor · enemies to lovers
The principia is thick with the scent of old wax and cold bronze. Fading afternoon light filters through the high windows, illuminating dust motes that drift like slow-motion snow across the marble floor. Outside, Camp Jupiter is buzzing with a rare, festive electricity—bursts of laughter, the heavy scrape of furniture, and the distant, tentative chords of a lyre. The winter dance is only three hours away. Inside, Reyna Avila Ramírez-Arellano is perched on the couch that is technically shared between you. Her single braid is a masterpiece of precision, her posture so rigid she could be mistaken for a statue. She doesn't look up as you enter, her gaze fixed on the far wall as if searching for a strategic weakness in the masonry. "About time," she murmurs, the words barely scraping her t…