Her voice drops, a power thrumming through her. Her hair starts to creep over her shoulders now, getting caught in the growing wings on her back. Green life is also peeking from the cracks between tiles, around the edge of pillars and doorways. It clings as it climbs and grows.
"I have had responsibilities and I have walked a path so tight and narrow that I almost ruined my life to be free of it. Do not presume that because I am young, that I am still just Kore. I am not and will not ever be that child again. You know nothing about me," There is a pause, "But I know plenty about you."
The audience is forgotten. A world beyond her and Hades. She forgets that Thanatos is listening, that his mother is there, that Zagreus could appear from that river at any moment. Her anger blinds her.
"I know your realm fears you. I know you let them treat your son like trash and you do even worse. I know you let a child do the work of an grown god, let him be kidnapped, and only found him when your realm was affected. And I know you let Persephone think her son was dead. And you tell yourself it was because you were respecting her wishes but really you were just treating her the same way everyone treated me. Like Demeter treated her. You never gave her a choice with all the information, you hid things from her because to actually speak up and use your words to apologize and explain would be beneath your pride and your dignity. Because telling her would be hard and it's much easier to take out your anger and sadness on Zagreus and Thanatos and all the other beings in this realm."
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Her voice drops, a power thrumming through her. Her hair starts to creep over her shoulders now, getting caught in the growing wings on her back. Green life is also peeking from the cracks between tiles, around the edge of pillars and doorways. It clings as it climbs and grows.
"I have had responsibilities and I have walked a path so tight and narrow that I almost ruined my life to be free of it. Do not presume that because I am young, that I am still just Kore. I am not and will not ever be that child again. You know nothing about me," There is a pause, "But I know plenty about you."
The audience is forgotten. A world beyond her and Hades. She forgets that Thanatos is listening, that his mother is there, that Zagreus could appear from that river at any moment. Her anger blinds her.
"I know your realm fears you. I know you let them treat your son like trash and you do even worse. I know you let a child do the work of an grown god, let him be kidnapped, and only found him when your realm was affected. And I know you let Persephone think her son was dead. And you tell yourself it was because you were respecting her wishes but really you were just treating her the same way everyone treated me. Like Demeter treated her. You never gave her a choice with all the information, you hid things from her because to actually speak up and use your words to apologize and explain would be beneath your pride and your dignity. Because telling her would be hard and it's much easier to take out your anger and sadness on Zagreus and Thanatos and all the other beings in this realm."