we can do anything we want. we can go anywhere we want. we just can't go home.
ethan nakamura x oc.
the lost hero through the blood of olympus.
book two in the winged trilogy.
started july 7, 2023. ongoing.
❝a man walks into a bar and says: take my wife―please. so you do. you take her out into the rain and you fall in love with her and she leaves you and you're desolate. you're on your back in your undershirt, a broken man on an ugly bedspread, staring at the water stains on the ceiling. and you can hear the man in the apartment above you taking off his shoes. you hear the first boot hit the floor and you're looking up, you're waiting because you thought it would follow, you thought there would be some logic, perhaps, something to pull it all together but here we are in the weeds again, here we are in the bowels of the thing: your world doesn't make sense. and then the second boot falls. and then a third, a fourth, a fifth.❞ boot theory, richard siken.
in which ethan nakamura and madeleine aetos are forced to reckon with sacrifice the same way they were forced to play a part in their parents' deaths: quickly, brutally, unapologetically. they love each other, but they cannot figure something out―who is the blade, and who is the hand that holds it?
ACT III: THE MARK OF ATHENA
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