forum Hell needs a parner with @BrennaKadavsky

Started May 01, 2019 by @Fenrir

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"just talk to her." The deer prompted "it can't hurt."
Hades scoffed "right, a goddess like her interacting with me can't hurt her?"

Her hand found a patch of rougher rock, and she leaned over to look at it.

"it won't." The deer prompted "you seem to like her, go talk, maybe she'll surprise you."

Perrie took a deep breath and let herself fill with the air, before leaning back and rocking on the stone.

Hades nodded "she'll know I followed her…." He sighed and stood straight

She stretched, slowly releasing tension from her shoulders and tucking on leg beneath herself.

Hades sighed and adjusted his shirt. "You're a king, get it together." He sighed and walked over to where Perrie had disappeared to. "Perrie?" he asked softly, glancing around.

She startled, looking up so quickly her hair fell out from behind her ears. She tucked it back, calming herself down. it's just him. "Yeah?" She shifted on the rock to face him.

He glanced down at her, trying to seem approachable "sorry for startling you, Norai just told me that you've been touring around the Underworld, how's that been going?"

"It's been nice. I never realized what it was really like down here." She bit her lip and didn't look at him, instead looking around the clearing.

"I'm sure Norai told you the significance of this place?" he asked, giving up trying to make eye contact with her

She nodded, letting one hand trail through the side of her hair. "It's really amazing."

He watched her with a thoughtful smile "Thank you, though I'm sure it's nothing compared to what you can do."

Perrie cocked her head at him, a playful smile as she finally met his eyes. "What do you mean?" She asked with a raised eyebrow.

He shook his head and smiled "I'm sure this is nothing compared to what you can do up there." he said pointing skywards

Perrie pursed her lips to hold back a smile. "What I can do up there, I can just as easily do down here." she smiled back.

He shook his head "I highly doubt it, not that I doubt you're skill, just that you can make anything grow down here."

Perrie raised both eyebrows, playfulness seeping into her voice. "Is that a challenge?" On the side opposite him, she dug her fingers onto the stone and pushed into it, pulling inside it for what she knew she'd find.

"I don't know, is it?" he asked, also gaining playfulness "I never knew you gods and being accepting of challenges." he mocked lightly, glancing over at what she was doing.

She pushed harder at the rock, pulling the life she could feel pulsing inside it. She hid the exertion and bounced to her feet triumphantly, revealing a tiny violet poking out of the side of the rock. "We like a good challenge sometimes."

He stood with her looking at the little purple flower in the rocks's crack. He smiled softly and then glanced up "harder down here, isn't it?"

"Not… harder. Just different. The life here is… Fainter, but louder. More perseverant, stronger. Does that make sense?" She looked up at him.

He nodded, "I couldn't describe it better." he pointed to the plant "it's more contained here, as are all the souls here. Therefore their life screams louder. THeir desire to live is more pronounced. out there, they were alive, so they had no reason to see their lives as anything but what they were experiencing. but now that death has taken them down here, they now see the value. It's a simple realization, just hard to explain."

"Exactly!" Perrie swung herself back to sit on the rock, facing him. "It's stronger down here, more focused. More determined. Up there the plants respond to me because they have nothing better to do, but down here it's like they're waiting for me."

He smiled softly "they want to show their true potential to you." he said, lightly touching the flower with his hand