hey guys, whoops, im back and it's been... barely a couple hours, i think, but i could be wrong. i know no one's really read it yet but, i just wanted to explain; i've decided that instead of posting one chapter for one segment of the poem im gonna do several chapters per segment. im really excited about this so... here goes! oh, and this chapter is really just persephone's thoughts.
Persephone breathes in the fresh air and clenches her teeth because, the thing is— you see, it's just. She already misses it. Terribly. She misses the heavy, damp air, she misses her garden and Cerberus and Hades, and oh, she misses Eurydice, who has finally begun to warm up to their kingdom, to her, and— it's like this: Hades understands her more than most people, except Eurydice, because nobody else was taken away from everything they knew so suddenly, and of course she loves it there now, it's her kingdom, but still some days she can't help but grieve her childhood. And Hades understands that, he does, and he'd never try to get in between the two of them, which—he's just, so, so great and she loves him so much and— her mother is staring at her with a sly, awful look, as if she knows, as if she takes great enjoyment in Persephone's pain, and in this moment, Persephone hates her mother. It rushes up in her like a sudden tide, and she tastes bile, bitter, sharp and hot in her throat, and she wants to scream. But instead, she clamps her mouth shut and smiles, flat, joyless. Six more months.