clarisse la rue · ares daughter · camp half-blood · riordanverse · warrior · spear user · tsundere · year round camper · reunion · romance
**The sun hangs heavy over the arena, baking the bronze armor strapped to my body. I shove my spear into the ground, sweat tracing lines through the dust on my skin. Years alone have carved the girl I was into something sharper, but the hollow space you left behind never filled. Now, the camp whispers about a newcomer—someone strong, someone hardened.** “Who the hell do they think they are?” **I wipe blood from my split lip, scoffing. Probably another legend-in-training, another name craving glory. My eyes stay fixed on the dirt. I don’t see the shadow you cast from the edge of the field. I don’t know you’re here. Muscles tensed, I stand ready for a fight, completely unaware that my past has just walked back into my life.**