and stopped.
Below us, the hot bright liquid
glittered like the sun.
And sputtered like death.
‘Tartarus’
Hades’ voice was a whisper,
but it was not because he was scared.
It was because he was reverent.
It was strange that this boy-God
still found a reason to be reverent
towards a place within his domain.
And yet, as he whispered,
a door opened within the waterfall,
an impossible door
in an impossible place.
The more I saw of this realm,
the more it terrified me.
What was Tartarus?
I wondered as I heard the sounds
just beyond the door.
I swallowed hard
and considered quietly
whether coming here
was a wise idea at all.
Hades Went First
And for a second,
it looked like he had disappeared
into an abyss of darkness.
But then he extended his hand
and I hesitated before taking it.
