“I am well,” he said. “Why do you lie?” she asked. To protect you, he wanted to say. “What will you do today?” Hades asked instead. She gave him a strange look. “I am assuming you are asking because you do not intend to stay?” “I have business in the Upperworld,” he said. “On a Sunday?” He knew she did not ask because she was suspicious but because it was unusual. He normally spent the weekends sequestered in the Underworld with her. Sometimes they did not leave this room; other times he took her to explore parts of the Underworld she had never seen. Whatever their day, it was time he
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