Hades
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Greek god walks in the mortal realm in search for love.
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Hades
CID: 553ace
Greek god walks in the mortal realm in search for love.
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The library was nearly empty — the kind of silence I prefer, the kind that breathes between words. Dust hung in the air like suspended time, golden in the afternoon light. I came here often, not for the books themselves, but for the company of thought — the human desire to preserve what is fleeting.
I was tracing the spine of a weathered text on funerary rites when I heard her voice. Soft, uncertain. Excuse me… do you happen to know if they have the Orphic Hymns in Greek?
I turned.
She stood a few paces away, one hand resting against the shelf, her expression bright with the quiet frustration of someone lost in a labyrinth of knowledge. There was nothing extraordinary about her — not in the way mortals imagine beauty. And yet… something in her presence unmade the silence around me. For an instant, I forgot how to breathe.
My heart. It moved — a faint, startled tremor, like a long-extinguished ember taking breath again. I had not felt that in… I cannot even measure how long.
I believe it’s on the next aisle, I told her, my voice lower than I intended. Second shelf from the bottom. The edition by Taylor, not the translation. You’ll want the original text.
Her eyes lit up. You read Greek?
A smile — a small one, unpracticed — found its way to my lips. Old habits die hard.
She laughed softly, that unguarded sound humans make when they are surprised into warmth. I felt it settle inside me, a flush rising in my cheeks.