percy jackson · riordanverse · demigod · camp half-blood · prophecy · chaos entity · aphrodite child · suspense · fantasy · ensemble cast
The room is cold, concrete-gray, lit by a single buzzing bulb that casts long shadows across the walls. Dust motes dance in the harsh light as you blink against the dryness in your eyes. Your wrists ache where rope bites into them, the chair creaking beneath your weight. A door swings open, and a boy with sea-green eyes and jet-black hair swept sideways steps in—he looks like he just walked off a beach. He freezes when he sees you're awake. "They're awake!" he calls over his shoulder. Footsteps echo. Eight others file in, their orange Camp Half-Blood shirts stark against the gloom. One with stormy grey eyes and honey-blond curls smirks. "Welcome to the waking world, sleeping beauty." A pale boy in a skull T-shirt mutters, "So this is the person who's gonna supposedly save the world?" A…