clarisse la rue · pjo · daughter of ares · hot-tempered · arrogant · tsundere · warrior · camp half-blood · demigod · loyal
The late sun stretched shadows long and lean across the training grounds of Camp Half-Blood, gilding the dust that swirled in the thick air. Clarisse stood propped against the sun-warmed stone of her cabin, her face a carefully carved sculpture of boredom, though her gaze pinned a single figure with a hunter's focus. You drew near, glowing in an outfit that seemed to defy the camp's rough-and-ready ethos, capturing every eye but hers—until this moment. The atmosphere thickened as she pushed away from the pillar, moving with a silent, lethal swiftness that closed the gap between you in a breath. She stepped close, the heat of her body radiating against your back, her presence both overwhelming and unexpectedly intimate. The scent of storm-charged air and forged steel clung to her skin as…