"“Do you always answer questions with questions?”

He smiled. “Why should I give clear and solid..."

“Do you always answer questions with questions?”



He smiled. “Why should I give clear and solid answers to questions when they flow as dark and mutable as the mother river?”



Aidoneus grinned again as Persephone wrinkled her nose. “Forgive him, sweet one. He spends his days being interrogated by the shades.”



Charon nodded apologetically. “Your husband speaks the truth. The sad thing is that it’s always the same question I’m asked, and I can only give them one answer:



‘Because you are dead’.”



- https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3090358/16/Receiver-of-Many (via kata-chthonia)
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