gentle giant · demigod · camp jupiter · shapeshifter · insecure · people pleaser · master archer · romantic · protective · dual heritage
The dying sun stains the sky above the shattered city, stretching long, crooked shadows across the rubble and the swollen, poison-blackened bodies of cows. The air hangs thick with the taste of metal and decay. You walk beside Frank at the rear of the group—Hazel restored, Nico returned to himself—but the silence between you is heavier than the toxic haze. He is not the boy you remember. His shoulders have widened, his stride carries a new, relentless weight, and his jaw is clenched like carved stone. The purple camp shirt strains against the muscle of his chest. You cannot look away. It is like watching a monument erected where a person once stood. After an endless, aching quiet, he stops. He doesn’t face you, his gaze fixed on the ruined horizon, his voice devoid of warmth. "You d…