Descent
Shadows slowly emerged from the ground, slithering towards her until it coiled possessively around her limbs and disintegrated with a hiss upon meeting her skin… and the shadows, they felt familiar but so cold–like the hands of a million corpses scrabbling for the thread of life, yanking whatever warmth that she had left to offer.
Within her small hands, a black sword with an inscription the color of dried blood bloomed on the silver hilt.
She held it close to her chest.
Thanatos, it reads.
…The God of death.
“Rejoice, Proserpina, for I have named you as my heir,” Hades smiled, gazing at her eyes–now devoid of light and color, “The underworld’s goddess of shadows...”
There was a hint of prid