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“I am not an Olympian.”
“Being one is overrated,” he replied. “I shall sit with you. Wherever you’d like.”
“Won’t that make Zeus angry?”
“Yes.”
“Do you want to marry me?” Persephone asked, looking up at him.
“Darling, I will marry you despite what Zeus says.”
She was quiet for a moment as they navigated around the tables.
“What does he do when he does not bless a marriage?”
“He arranges a marriage for the woman,” he said, but that would not happen here.
Hades steered Persephone to a table on the other side of the room against the wall. He preferred something as far away from people as possible and with a view of the entrance. He pulled out her chair, and as she sat, he pushed it in before seating himself.
Persephone smiled at the man and woman sitting across from them, who did not even try to hide their terror.
“Hi,” she greeted. “I’m—”
“Persephone,” the man said. “We know who you are.”
“Yes.” She hesitated, and Hades admired her for trying to make polite conversation. “What are your names?”
“That is Thales, and that is Callista,” Hades said. “They are children of Apeliotes.”
“Apeliotes?”
“The God of the Southeast Wind,” Hades explained.
There was a god foreverytype of wind.
“Y-you know us?” Callista asked.
Maybe I chose the wrong table, he thought. “Of course.”
“Hades, what are you doing?” Aphrodite asked, halting at their table. Hephaestus stood in her shadow.
“Sitting,” Hades said.
“But you are at the wrong table,” she pointed out, as if he did not know.
“As long as I am with Persephone, I am right,” he said.
Aphrodite frowned, and Hades wondered why she cared at all about where he sat.
“How is Harmonia, Aphrodite?” Persephone asked.
“Fine, I suppose,” Aphrodite answered. “She has been spending much of her time with your friend Sybil.”
“I think they have become very good friends.”
Aphrodite smirked, eyes glinting. “Friends.Have you forgotten I am the Goddess of Love?”
Persephone said nothing, and Aphrodite turned to Hephaestus, who took her offered hand and led her to the Olympians table.
