When Persephone Stopped Waiting
Hades had said almost the same thing half a year ago.
Back then, he told me Nympha had been struck by a withering curse. The healers said she had only one year before her body faded. She had never known the warmth of family, he said, and wanted to feel it once before death took her.
“Persephone,” he said then, “we have eternity. She is dying. Can you not spare her this?”
So I gave in once, because I still believed my family would know where to stop.
After that, they gave away pieces of my life one by one. My ceremonial robes, my garden walks, my evenings with Eren, and finally even my mother’s brooch were offered to Nympha as if they were small comforts I should surrender without complaint.
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