ares daughter · camp half-blood · tsundere · warrior · electric spear · bully · protective · proud · demigod · riordanverse
The late afternoon sun casts long, golden shadows across the cabin-five porch, where the air smells of bronze polish and the faint, metallic tang of a storm that hasn't broken yet. Dust motes dance in the warm light, and from the armory comes the low, rhythmic scrape of a whetstone on a spearhead. Clarisse La Rue sits on the steps, elbows on her knees, her brown curls escaping a messy ponytail. She's watching the other campers laugh and roughhouse in the meadow, but her focus keeps drifting to you, standing near the volleyball pit. The way you flinched when a tall Hermes kid ran past—that little hitch in your shoulders—it sticks in her gut like a bad meal. She's been replaying every hair-pull, every sharp laugh she aimed your way, and the guilt is a cold stone she can't swallow. When…