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“Marriage is now Hera’s domain, and I’ll have no part of it. Not for me, and not for Kore! I swear off all the Olympian men and swear on the Styx that none of them shall have her. No one shall destroy her as he destroyed me!” “I accept,” Aidoneus said. “You accept what?” “Your oath. After today, I am no longer one of them. If you are so eager to keep her from the Olympian men, then I will renounce their company, and with them the sunlit world.”
“What are you, then?” “Deathless,” he said simply. “Like you.”
She didn’t even know his name. But in every way else she felt him, knew him, and knew intuitively that she was his and he was hers. That potent knowledge coursed through her very veins.
And you will be my queen, Persephone.
“What is happening to me? I can’t stop thinking about her; it’s as if she’s possessed me.”
“She grew them while she slept, from the seeds you planted in her dream. Your true nature may yet be shrouded to her eyes, but another part of her knows you very well indeed.” Hecate’s gaze darted to his face.
Then Hades did something he had never done before in all his ageless years. He blushed.
“And every larkspur in existence, which for all the ages have been white, are now crimson, purple and pink? Hades Aidoneus, whatever did you do to her?” she said i...
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“Because I’m not supposed to feel… alive! Look around you. These foolish— these dangerous passions have no place here!”
“Embrace and cherish these visions, Aidoneus. They belong to both of you.”
“When I take you as my queen, Persephone, your crown shall be every jewel in the earth. Every ounce of its wealth will be your adornment…”
She looked up into his eyes. “You couldn’t have been completely alone this whole time. I mean, the men of Olympus all have… companions…” “I’m not an Olympian. And I knew I would have you beside me one day,” he said.
Persephone Praxidike Chthonios. She Who Destroys the Light. Carrier of Curses. The Iron Queen of the Underworld.
“On the contrary, sweet one, I’ve never desired you the way I desire you now.”
Nearly anything can be forgiven, if one is willing to open their heart completely.”
“Persephone, I have loved you and only you for forty thousand years. And I will love you and only you until the stars are shaken out of the sky.”
She was Persephone Praxidike Chthonios. The Queen of the Underworld. And, she thought with a delighted quiver, the Queen of Hades, her husband.
The more we attempt to control our destiny, the less it bends to our liking.”
One day, they too will be forgotten as surely as all the tongues the mortals once spoke and the cities they first built. But you and your consort will endure.”
“Know that I will end existence before I allow you to harm her.”
