#guysssss do u see this? i updated!!!!! i forgot to post this on tumblr yesterday whoops but here it is <3 enjoy

[chironshorseass]

“Mars warned us, when he arrived,” she explained. “Remember? The Doors of Death are open. I mean, I died, but I came back. And monsters have been reforming faster than usual, right? Perseus will come back, if he dies.”

Hazel couldn’t look at her, not at the cost of giving herself away. She felt the heaviness behind her eyes, the warning signs of an incoming flashback to her past, and she quickly blinked it all away. The Fields. The endlessness. A pale hand, leading her away. An open door. A new world. A new start.

“No,” Hazel said, rather forcefully—though she hadn’t wanted to argue, not now, yet she had to, for the purpose of staying sane. She gazed at Perseus again. Mars had gone still, Perseus looming over him, the roles reversed. The Romans grew restless. Reyna threw her hand up, in a feeble attempt to stop the people already drawing weapons. Yes, Gwen was right; it was possible to return from the dead, but…“This is a duel to the death. Someone has to die.”