Once Upon a Winter's Spring
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Woven into fairytales.
Kore is the Olympus's Golden Girl, everyone's favorite child. Demeter, scorned of men after her own brother took her, vows to keep her daughter sheltered from men, especially from the God of Hell. The problem with Hades wasn't his fearful reputation, but the fact that his real self could charm an old hag into falling in love.
But as with all children, the more taboo something is, the more they crave it. And Olympus's Golden Girl always gets what she wants.
The question is: will everyone be happy with it?
And what consequences will there be?
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