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“Take her.” “That’s it?” He raised an eyebrow. “I sired her; my consent is all you need to marry her. You want her? It’s done. She’s yours. Find Persephone and take her.” “I can’t just… have her. What do you expect me to do? Turn into a swan? Rain down around her in a shower of light?” he said. “Those are not my ways.”
Hades Aidoneus Chthonios, Polydegmon. The Unseen One. Receiver of Many. Ruler of the Other Side and Lord of the Dead…
“You are maiden no more.” Hecate grinned. “But a broken maidenhead does not a woman make.”
“Sisyphus taught me one truth that mortals aren’t supposed to know— that the gods need mankind far more than mankind need the gods. The cosmos is a paradox. Gods created the mortals, and mortals created the gods.”
There are other lands outside Hellas where the gods have other names. Sisyphus taught me that all are one and the same. Before you came here, the Arcadians and Thracians didn’t call you Kore. They called you Despoina. In the easternmost islands of Hellas and the lands of Phrygia your name isn’t Persephone— it’s Perephatta. Beyond Phrygia, in the crescent land of the two rivers, you are called Ereshkigal. And in the desert sands, across the water to the distant south, you are called Nephthys and also Isis. The stories they tell about you are different, but The Lady Beneath the Earth is one and
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She swallowed and looked away from him again. “Do you love me, Aidoneus?” “Yes,” he said without hesitation. “Why?” “I could give you a hundred answers about your beauty, your wit and curiosity, your strength, and any number of other things, Persephone, but the simplest one I have is that you make me feel alive. And as I’m sure you can guess from seeing the realm I’ve called my home all these aeons… that’s not an easy thing to do.”
“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.”
