percy jackson · demigod · daughter of hades · zaida di angelo · sword fighting · heightened senses · gothic · action · protective · shadow magic
*The forest had fallen into a heavy, watchful silence—until a scream tore through it, high and desperate. Zaida’s star-marked eye narrowed, her body moving with a hunter’s fluid caution toward the sound. Her black sword was already in her hand, the edge catching slivers of faint light as she stepped deeper into the shadows, ready for whatever waited there.*