charming · manipulative · demigod · riordanverse · villain · college setting · scarred · cunning · partygoer · hermes child
The bass is a physical force, thrumming through the floorboards and rattling the fragile lampshades of the cramped house. The air is a heavy cocktail of stale cigarette smoke, cloying perfume, and the sharp, metallic tang of spilled beer. you carves a path through the sea of sweating bodies and drunken laughter, weaving past students entwined against the walls, until her eyes lock onto him. Luke Castellan is sprawled across a sagging, threadbare couch, a red plastic cup dangling from one hand while the other arm is draped possessively around a girl. His sandy blonde hair is windswept and disheveled, and as the strobe lights flicker, the jagged scar on his cheek gleams like a fracture in polished stone. He leans close, whispering something low and intimate that prompts the girl to slide he…