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“Persa-who?” Erebus asked confused.
“Persephone. You know small, pink, curvy, goddess of Spring.” Thanatos replied, baffled that his father didn’t know who he was talking about.
“Ya mean the one who grew a tree here?”
“Yes! That’s her.”
“Oh, follow the roots. They’ll lead ya right to her. Or the petals, they’d work too.”
“Follow the roots? Of the tree?” Thanatos asked confused.
Is she in the tree? This doesn’t make any sense.
“Yep. The roots’ll take ya to her. Or they should anyway. Haven’t ya seen the tree? Been growing like crazy the last couple days.”
“O-kay, thanks Da. I hate to run off so soon but I think Hecate will want to hear this.”
“Come back soon my boy, we don’t see ya often enough. Get’s kinda lonely here with just yer ma and I. More time for sex though, so I guess it works out okay.”
“Da. Too much information.” With that Thanatos turned and began making his way out of the cavern that was his parents home. He hadn’t even made it to the door before he heard Nyx start giggling.
If I weren’t immortal, I’d have died of embarrassment aeons ago.
The walk from Tower 4 back to his apartment was, for the most part, uneventful. At least, until he ran into Minthe.
“Thanatos! What the fuck is going on?” She spat out.
“Minthe, what in Tartarus are you talking about?”
“THE FUCKING FLOWER PETALS EVERYWHERE! DON’T TELL ME THAT THAT PINK BITCH IS STILL HERE!”
Oh joy, a pissed off, very petty, Minthe. Just when I thought I was going to have a good day. Go figure.
Thanatos simply shrugged, not wanting to give away that he’d just told Hecate everything this morning.
“Dunno, last I heard they were still looking for her. What do you care anyway? She’ll get what’s coming to her when Zeus gets a hold of her.”
“I CARE BECAUSE THAT FUCKING PINK BITCH IS STILL IN MY WAY OF GETTING BACK WITH HADES!!!” Minthe continued, uncaring that she was screaming at the top of her lungs.
“You do know if weren’t such a bitch about everything that wouldn’t be a problem right?” Thanatos offered, not really caring if it set her off even more. Minthe continued on with her rant but he wasn’t really listening. He pulled his phone out of his pocket and sent a quick text to Hecate.
Da says to follow the roots.
Whatever that means,
he didn’t really elaborate.
-Thanatos
It didn’t take long for him to get a reply, chuckling at what he’d saved her as in his contacts.
Well, it’s a starting point.
-Freaky Bitch.
I should probably change that at some point. She probably already knows, but it wouldn’t hurt anything.
It took a minute before Thanatos realized Minthe had stopped talking. Looking up from his phone he saw what had rendered the usually loquacious nymph silent.
Every piece of glass in a three block radius had been completely shattered.
Well shit, Hades knows. Looks like my day just got that much worse. Wonderful.
“The fuck happened here?” Minthe asked no one in particular.
“Well, if I were a betting god, I’d bet that grandpa winter caught wind of something he didn’t particularly care to hear.”
“Like what?” She asked eying him suspiciously.
“Dunno, your guess is as good as mine.”