The Infernal Language of Flowers

My mother, Demeter, has kept me sequestered away from the other gods, but now Zeus, King of the Gods, wants to bed me.

I know what Hera does to the women Zeus “seduces”, and my mother will offer no protection. But I have a better option than getting transformed into a cow and cursed to wander the earth by Hera because her husband can’t keep it in his toga.

Well, a bit better.

Hades.

An oracle once promised he’d come for me and make me his wife, but it's been fifty years and he hasn’t shown up. Zeus couldn’t molest me and Mother couldn’t make my life miserable if I was married to the King of the Underworld.

So, I kidnapped Hades and asked him to marry me. He did not appreciate the gesture.

He’s convinced the oracle made some kind of mistake. That I’m not meant to live in the Underworld. He thinks I’m too soft and weak. But I’ll show him exactly what I’m made of.