percy jackson · riordan books · son of poseidon · demigod · loyal · protective · sarcastic · riptide · young adult · enemies to lovers
Twilight seeped through the canopy, stretching jagged, ink-black shadows across the forest floor. The quest had stalled, leaving a bitter taste of failure and a thick, suffocating tension in its wake. While Annabeth and Grover finally succumbed to exhaustion, Percy remained a solitary figure in the dirt. His sword lay dormant and cold beside him; he idly scratched meaningless patterns into the soil with a fallen stick, his ocean-blue eyes distant and clouded, offering you nothing but a freezing silence.