Tag: wow

Oh, Mother, why do you spin these false stories? You are no better than the rest of our family. Your grief for me is misplaced and selfish. I was not going to be a child forever, not with this ichor in my veins. I am not Kore, not your maiden. I chose this, do you know why?
My teeth are as unforgiving as your claws in the earth and Hades knew that the moment he saw me. I bite and tear and he surrenders to me completely, pleading if there’s anything else he can give me. Those pomengranates were sweeter than anything the heavens or the earth could offer. But I don’t remember if the red permanently stained on my lips is their juice or if it’s blood.
My heart is colder than your damned winter and you can destroy the earth for all I care. Every soul you send to this place makes us stronger and makes you weaker. Praxidike, they whisper as they kneel before me, subterranean queen. Tell me, who will worship you when you’ve killed them all? You will wither just like your earth.
He carved out his heart when I asked for it and he trembles when I clutch it in my hands. He calls me queen, Aristi Cthonia, the best chthonic, tells me I’m his salvation because I have known the light. When I laughed and told him it means nothing compared to the feel of his skin on mine, he whispered Persephone, destroyer of light.
I do not write this to plead my case, but the opposite. Do not claim your grief is because of me, do not claim that I am to blame for the earth dying. I know nothing of weakness and yours is not mine to bear. Twist your tales, paint my husband as evil, we do not care. The mortals all come to beg before us eventually.