"Why would it---not everything is a rivalry to the death."

Persephone digs her nails into her legs, the conversation is getting a little off where she'd hope to go.

"As in I was around them my whole life, they helped raise me, they helped with my chores and bringing in spring, as in we had fights but they'll always be someone I care about. They--it's complicated." She doesn't want to put words in her mother's mouth. Her mom was good enough at that sort of thing as it was.

"They were ordered to be my companions by my mother but it didn't stop me from caring about them."