+ Something inside him had withered, and he was desperate to revive itβto reclaim the hero he had once been before war had turned him into something else.
β β β Before he had become human.
β β β
+ he sought out his father not as a son, not as a lost heir of Olympus, but as a warrior in exile. The battlefield had abahdoned him, and yet, he yearned for its brutal embrace once more. He craved the weight of a sword in his hand, the fire of combat in his soul. +