“Hello,” she said, though it sounded more like a question. She closed the door. “Am I…interrupting something?” Hypnos snorted. “Persephone, this is Hypnos, God of Sleep,” Hades said. “He is Thanatos’s brother. They are nothing alike.” Hypnos’s mouth tightened, and he narrowed his eyes. “She would have figured that out on her own. You didn’t have to tell her.” “I didn’t want her to have the false impression that you would be as kind.” “I am not unkind,” Hypnos said. “But I do not do well in the presence of idiots. You are not an idiot, are you, Lady Persephone?” Hades stiffened at the question.
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