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Isis squeezed his arm. "You deserve happiness after all you have suffered."
"So do you, Isis. I can feel Thoth opening the pathways here. Are you ready?" Hades asked her.
Isis nodded, but she still looked nervous. "Will you wait with me?"
"Yes. I need to be here to greet them." The words were barely out of Hades's mouth when Thoth's magic scorched the air, and the Egyptians came through. Anubis took one look at Isis and lifted her in a hug.
"Mother, you are here," he said, squeezing her.
"My baby, put me down so I can look at you," Isis replied. Anubis placed her back on her feet, and he took her face in his hands. Tears appeared in Isis's dark eyes. "My boy. Still so beautiful."
Anubis smiled. "This is Tahirah, my consort."
And so, the introductions began.
Set squeezed Isis too. "I'm so happy to see you. Don't stay in exile anymore."
"I won't. Thoth can't keep secrets anyway," Isis teased.
Thoth huffed. "I can, too! They never found you until you summoned Persephone. They have all been bitching about me keeping it a secret too."
"Thank you, Thoth." Isis kissed his cheek, and he stopped grumbling and introduced her to Kema.
Hades was so caught up in conversation, he didn't sense the shift in the air until the doors to the Duat opened, and Osiris appeared through them.
"How the fuck did he get here?" Set growled.
"He's still a god and would have felt the babies too," Hades replied.
Osiris bowed politely. "Lord Hades, congratulations on the birth of your children."
"Thank you, Osiris," he replied, wondering what to do. He didn't want to offend Isis, but it was too late to turn the other god away.
"I see you have my wayward wife in attendance too," Osiris said, his eyes fixing on Isis.
"Ex-wife," Thoth corrected.
Isis's shoulders only straightened. "Osiris, I hear you let the Duat crumble."
"I was trying to get you to come back! I was desperate for you to give up this hatred and finally come and talk to me," Osiris replied.
"I have nothing left to say to you," Isis said.
"Please, give me a moment—" Osiris made to grab for her, but the biggest god Hades had ever seen caught his hand. He wore a black and silver embroideredentarirobe and had murder on his face.
"Try to touch her again, and I will scatter you in so many pieces that even Isis won't be able to put you back together again," the strange god said, his pale eyes glowing with menace. His long black and silver hair lifted as his power built in the air around them. Hades readied himself for a fight.
"Threaten me all you want, but Isis will never be yours, no matter how long you pine for her." Osiris yanked his hand out of his grip, and the doors to the Duat re-opened. He cast a warning look back to Hades. "I hope your wife and children are more forgiving than mine, Serapis." He disappeared through the gates, and Hades quickly re-set the protections around Elysium to ensure he couldn't return.
Isis collided with the new god and hugged him tight. "Khonsu."
"Did he hurt you?" he asked gently, enfolding her in his embrace and cupping the back of her head with his large hand.
"No," she replied, not letting him go. "Where have youbeen?"
"You seemed like you wanted to be alone, but I have been watching over you as always," Khonsu said.
Thoth sidled up to Hades. "Itoldyou she had a protector. He would've messed you up before you could have even reached the wards on Isis's island."
