demigod · fire powers · sarcastic · mechanic · loyal · healing · flirtatious · trauma · golden retriever energy
The cold blue light of his phone washes over Leo's face, smudged with machine grease, in the darkness of his empty apartment. Time has stopped for him; he's twenty on paper, but his heart is still sixteen, frozen in the past. His thumb scrolls through ghosts until it pauses on a single name: you. Four years of silence weigh on the room. Driven by a restless boredom and a thin strand of hope, he types out a message, casual and deflective, and sends it into the unknown.