A/N: I can imagine that this would be difficult to understand if you're not familiar with the myth of Orpehus and Eurydice. Check the bottom for a summary of that story. :) It was just a plot bunny that ran up and bit me while I was spending five desperate minutes on the computer before school...
Eurydice
By Mrs. James Norrington
Struck! Struck by a snake… Struck as she slept, so soft, so young… As she slept in the morning-- the morning of her life. A rosebud barely touched by golden dew; a fruit fallen too early from the bough.
Fallen… fallen… struck… sssssnake… soft… sleep… poison…
Poison! Burn… Black… Bliss… Fire… Out… Smoke… Snake… Snaking smoke… Ssshhhadows… Slip… Gray… Whispers…
Hades. There are whispers everywhere, here in the underworld. They pursue, they strike, they taunt her with there mischief. Mischief! But she mustn't despair. One day her Orpheus will arrive to bring her home.
He should not look back. It was forbidden by Hades! Forbidden! She senses him struggling not to glance behind, but he cannot resist. What does he expect to see when he looks? What she once was? Golden-haried and full of life? All that is left is a shadow, a gray shadow in the form of a woman. A second of memory and then she must fade...
Shadow… Fade… Back… black… needle… beadle… beadle-deedle-deedle…
There is a man before her. She ought to know him; she has seen him before!
Perhaps she has not looked back often enough. Perhaps one can only truly comprehend that which is before him by looking behind.
And then, she knows. He is a ghost. The ghost of her Orpheus, come to sing her home.
Ghost… Sing… Whisper… Home… Mischief… Sleep… Sleep.
Premise: The original Greek myth is about a minstrel named Orpheus and his beautiful bride Eurydice. She dies from a snake bite and he goes to the underworld to bring her back. The one condition is she will follow him, and he cannot look back until they reach Earth again. He cannot resist the temptation to look back, and she has to return to the land of the dead.
Yeah, I know I twisted it around alot. But hey, Lucy's crazy, right?! :)