“You do not understand the Divine. I cannot protect you from another god. It is a fight you would have to win on your own.” Hades could not prevent retribution between a god and their target, even if it was Persephone. The only possible way was to bargain, and no god wanted to owe another. Especially Hades. But for her—for this goddess whom he loved more than anything—he would bargain, and that made what she asked next somehow more painful. “Are you saying you wouldn’t fight for me?” He wouldn’t just fight. He would dismantle the world, and he would only feel remorse for Persephone, who would
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