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PERSEPHONE WALKED THE corridors of the castle, wringing her hands. She had made sure she looked like she hadn't been crying. The thought angered her. She felt fragile, like the flowers she used to care for.     What had she done to deserve this? Why was she going through this punishment, this condemning trial?     She was vulnerable.     And she did not want to be.     Stopping, she leaned against a wall, making sure there was no one there. She closed her eyes, leaning her head back.     If you can hear me, Mother, Father, please come for me. I'm waiting for you. Please.     Suddenly, she heard footsteps near her. She composed

Chapter two: The Game of Deception. Hades waited patiently for a day when the sun would be hidden by the clouds, he did not want Helios to see him taking Persephone, Demeter would eventually find out where her daughter was. He had planned by the time the Goddess of the harvest found her daughter, it would be too late for he would have fed her the fruit of the dead and she would be his forever. His attendants watched him closely as of late; the smile he obtained that day in the earthly field was still spread across his handsome face. This was the day, he thought. The clouds would soon cover the sky and he would open the earth and take Persep

"Hades!" she screamed in rage. Silk curtains tore as nails were raked across them. Pillows were swept to the floor and set upon; with a ripping sound there were feathers adrift in the air. She collapsed amid the chaos, sobbing. "I hate you. I hate you!" Her voice broke into the motionless air, hung amid the feathers, shivered in its anger. He stood with shadowed eyes on the other side of the closed door. He knew she thought he couldn't hear her, knew she thought he was elsewhere attending to business as usual--knew what she thought of him. When her furious sobs had given way to shuddering breaths he said quietly, "The door isn't locked," an

Chapter II Persephone       Hades paused for a few moments, reflecting on the past before he began to speak to me.   “Before you can truly understand what brought me out of the Underworld to your father’s palace that day, I must explain to you the circumstances that influenced the Goddess of Fate to name me as the Ruler of the Underworld.”   He paused once again and I could see that he had to reach deep down into the pool of his memory to reconstruct the events that must have occurred thousands of years before I was even born, events that decided not only his Fate, but I was soon to find out my Fate as well.   After what se

Persephone, Queen of the Dead Chapter 1 Persephone     My birth name is Kore, but modern readers may only know me by the name Persephone; the name my husband gave to me on our wedding day many long centuries ago.  You see I am the consort of Hades, the God of the Underworld, known by some as the Queen of the Dead.  Throughout the centuries since I took my place within the Underworld, at my husband’s side, I have heard many tales of how my uncle, the God Hades, kidnapped me while I was picking flowers with the daughter of Oceanos, the Sea Nymphs, one bright, sunny day; how as I screamed and struggled with all my might, he seized me an