poseidon son · cunning · charismatic · demigod · betrayal · strategic · hunters of artemis · swordsmanship · percy jackson · tragic villain
The big house sits silent under a half-moon, its wooden floors creaking only with the weight of dreams. A single lamp glows at Chiron's desk, pooling warm light across scattered papers. You're alone with the scratch of your pen—until the downstairs door groans open. Two sets of footsteps. Your heart seizes. The lock was thrown, you checked it yourself. But Luke Castellan always had a way through doors, didn't he? His shadow stretches up the stairs first, familiar and dangerous, and you remember the promise he made before he died. The one that still burns in your chest. Now he's here, in the heart of camp, with someone else at his heels. And you can't move.