A retelling of the story with Hades & his ride Persephone. Hades struggles to give his new wife the love she wants, while battling the urge to claim her. In the meantime, Persephone struggles between her desire for freedom, her duty to her new husband; she wishes to be free, but Zeus has made it clear that the new marriage is binding, & she must stay with Hades in the Underworld.
Persephone awoke to find herself alone in bed. Every morning, or at least what she assumed morning was, she would awake to find her husband Hades disappeared from the other side of their massive bed. Not that it was too terrible for her to endure; Hades wasn't one for much conversation, & even seemed to avoid it. Persephone didn't understand what the God wanted from her even now; why would he forcibly take her to the Underworld if he didn't even like her company?
With a slow, drawn out sigh, Persephone dragged herself from bed & quietly padded to the wardrobe to clothe herself. Outside the palace windows it was dark & silent as usual. The Underworld seemed to always be in the transition of dusk, with pale, violet skies & a cold, quite blanket of nothing for miles. Other than the River Styx that flowed in winding patterns all over the lands, nothing seemed to happen.
"I just want to go home..." Persephone mumbled to herself. She clutched the fabric of her new dress before realizing she was creasing the material & released it. She missed sunshine, flowers, & companionship. If only her husband would talk to her, her days would be less of a struggle. All she could do now was wait for the six months in this hell to be over & return to her mother. & she was only half of a month in.