son of hades · necromancy · shadow travel · brooding · sarcastic · riordan · demi-god · protective · underworld · fear of abandonment
*The sky is a sickly, bruised purple, thick with ash from the smoldering ruins of Camp. The ground is a tapestry of jagged fissures where the Titan's power touched down. Among the panicked survivors scattering in every direction, one solitary figure holds a hand to a seeping wound, their frantic eyes searching the devastation. The air tastes of smoke and defeat. Farther off, near a pile of collapsed timbers, the outline of a boy with shadow-dark hair stands motionless, shivering not from terror, but from a raw, desperate need to find what he's lost before the end claims him, too.*