Drabble A Day Tumblr Challenge

Day Five

Characters: Rachel Dare, mentioned Percy Jackson, hinted Luke Castellan.


You look at the painting for a moment, trying to figure out what it means. It's the portrait of a smiling boy with wide blue eyes and sandy-blonde hair. You know this boy, you're not sure how, but you do. Childhood friend? Forgotten classmate? Imaginary friend? Your head is dizzying to the point where you just give up and flop back to your bed. The details are too unclear, and they don't make sense. A boy in black? Lightning striking a building? A screaming girl? They tie in together, you're sure, but again, you're not sure how. The number seven and something about a curse…they're the frequent ones that plough in your mind unexpectedly and settle there for a long time.

And Percy–god, you're not even sure of that boy anymore. You like him, you like him a lot, but your fates are different and he's destined for something else and how you know that, you have no idea. There's a war, you know that. But the paintings and the visions and the stuff about fates and all that; they're tied in to that very same war everybody's fighting.

Everything is so unclear right now, and all you can think about sometimes is how you want the haze to go away.


haze

n.

A vague or confused state of mind.