Chapter I - The Narcissus
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Persephone sat in the sunlight.
She’d chosen her favorite spot at The Coffee House, an outdoor table just out of view of the shop’s window. Shade trees and box gardens teeming with purple aster and pink and white sweet alyssum lined the crowded pedestrian street. A light breeze carried the scent of spring, and the honeyed air was mild. This was her season. She should have felt more relaxed.
But her eyes drifted to a bunch of narcissus flowers that sat in a slender vase on her table. It was a sparse bouquet, and one flower’s petals were crisp and brown, curling like the fingers of a corpse. It was like someone had set flame to it. The narcissus were the flower and symbol of Hades, the God of the Dead. Their sudden appearance in The Coffee House was a public acknowledgement by the owners that they honored the God.
