Chapter 20 - The ... (1/2)

Who am I?

I wandered aimlessly.

Drifting. For eternity.

I was bored. What was I doing… I needed to do something. What was it? There was a man. There. In front.

He was saying something. Persephone? Who was that?

”This must be because of the Laws failing. The magic of the underworld thinks that you are a soul of Asphodel.”

Asphodel? Soul? I was confused. Those words resonated with me, but the more I tried to remember their meanings, the more persistently they eluded me.

Questions. I had questions. I needed to say them. But what were they?

I felt weird. Funny. I felt tingling. He was touching my forehead.

”Hello?”

His voice was strange. It was deep, and shook the very ground we stood on.

”Persephone?”

I did not respond, and only looked at my hands in utter fascination. They were so… calloused. Why were they calloused?

”I am Thanatos. Do you remember me?”

I shook my head, watching my hair spread out with childish fascination.