When Persephone Stopped Waiting
A woman leaned close to them, smiling softly as she smoothed my son’s hair.
The boy was Eren, the child I had nearly given up half my life force to bring into the world.
The woman was not me.
I was Persephone, goddess of spring, queen of the Underworld, and Hades’s wife under every sacred law.
Not long after, Nympha posted her own update on the social feed.
In the illustration, my mother’s pomegranate brooch lay beside a small charm of laurel and asphodel, clumsily woven by a child’s hands. Beneath it, she wrote:
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