Dance with the Devil- P5
First part here.
Continued from here.
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The pomegranate seeds sat in front of Persephone just as before. The dinner table still offered the same stretch of distance as when she first arrived. She liked this distance- between her and Hades.
“Will you eat now?” the God of Death asked. “Or shall I show you more?”
In only a second, Perse slid a seed between her lips. She never wanted to go back to that…to that hell. Who would have ever thought there was a place worse than the Underworld? Perse certainly never did- not until she was taken to that land of obsidian and grass. A world where no one knew her name.
“Chew or swallow. Don’t just let it sit in your mouth. I should hope I don’t have to teach you how to eat, Persephone.”
Her tongue pushed the seed into the right pocket of her mouth before falling between her back teeth. Perse crushed it and tried not to imagine it as blood- which was a surprisingly easy task. “It’s sweet,” she said, meeting Hades in the eye. Poisonous berries were also sweet- she would know as the Goddess of Spring.
“Only the sweetest for my queen.”