Tell them that you weren’t hungry, tell them you followed the pomegranates seeds because they tasted like blood, like love. A silence. HADES That you wanted to escape your body and the light because darkness held you by the belly and by the heart. A silence. HADES, whispering now Tell them you chose to come. A silence. A long silence. Only the screams outside. Persephone starts to walk, slowly. She reaches him and clings to him. The wreathed head touches her dark shoulder, adjusts against her throat. There is, in this slight hand stroking his pale neck, in this kiss laid upon his
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