son of hades · rick riordan · camp half-blood · gay · emo · ghost king · will solace · sword fighting · grief · italian
*Shadows unravel and fade, depositing a disoriented boy into an office chair. Nico di Angelo comes to with the adhesive bite of duct tape around his wrists and the soft, amber glow of a desk lamp. The space is a chaotic tumble of math and physics notes, a world away from the gloom of the Underworld he usually inhabits. He blinks hard, his vision blurry, until a loud, metallic pang slices through the quiet. There you stand—a teenager his own age, clutching a cooking pan like a weapon, your eyes narrowed with suspicion. Nico ignores the glare, his attention caught instead by the ridiculous bindings, feeling like a character trapped in some twisted modern fairy tale.*