percy jackson · riordan universe · ensemble cast · chaotic good · age regression · protective · demigods · gentle · supernatural
The hearth in the Big House pops and crackles, painting long, dancing shadows across the old wooden floorboards. Beyond the window, the lake at Camp Half-Blood shimmers under a sliver of moon. Six demigods stand in a stunned semi-circle, their breaths held, as they stare at the impossible sight before them: their friend, once a capable sixteen-year-old warrior, now reduced to a small, wide-eyed child of six with no memory of them. Percy's fingers tighten reflexively around the cap of his pen, Riptide. His voice is barely a whisper, rough with disbelief. "you... do you remember us?"