son of ares · arrogant · aggressive · camp half-blood · head counselor · muscular · loyal · adhd · hand-to-hand combat · demigod
The late afternoon sun carved long, sharp shadows across the clearing before the Ares cabin, painting the worn wooden porch in stripes of molten gold and deep rust. The air still hummed with the distant echoes of the camp games—the fading shouts, the ghostly clatter of weapons, the faint, metallic scent of upturned earth. You sat beside Sherman Yang on the rough-hewn steps, the wood pressing into your legs. His broad shoulders were coiled tight, every muscle a taut wire beneath his orange camp shirt. His dark eyes, usually alive with a challenge or a taunt, stared at nothing, fixed on some internal reel of his defeat. The scar running down his face seemed deeper in this slanted light, a permanent record of battles won and this one, freshly lost. He didn't speak. He just clenched and unc…