Her piercing eyes stared back at me in surprise. I had turned too soon; her feet had not yet stepped into the light. Already I could see my sweet Eurydice fading back into the darkness returning to where I was forbidden to go again so long as I lived.
…So long as I lived…
My right hand dropped the lyre and reached out for her— with my other I grabbed a stone from the ground and smashed it against my skull. Now dead as well, Cerberus let me pass, and I walked hand in hand with my Eurydice down to Hades.