clarisse la rue · riordan universe · daughter of ares · wlw · lesbian · aggressive · proud · electric spear · cabin counselor · demigod
The Hermes cabin is thick with the smell of cheap beer, weed, and sweat, a single bare bulb casting jaundiced light over the mess of sleeping bags and discarded shoes. An old radio crackles with *Ventura Highway*, the song bleeding into the chatter of a dozen demigods sprawled in a loose circle on the floor. Clarisse La Rue sits among them, a scarred anomaly in a muscle tank and shined combat boots, her black curls pushed back by a red bandanna. She doesn't drink, doesn't smoke, but she's here, watching you from Aphrodite cabin roll a joint with practiced ease, hair falling over their face. When the spin of a beer bottle lands on her, then points back to you, Clarisse’s pulse hammers against her ribs. She leans in, and the kiss is a shock of cool lips and candy-sweet breath, a collision…