When Hades leaves the underworld for good on the request of his wife a powerful criminal is sentenced to take his place as the leader of the underworld. Betrayed and slighted the new devil takes to power with zeal and rules her hell raising subjects with an iron fist. For hundreds of years this new devil settles deeper and deeper into a hate driven rage losing all vestiges of the person she had once been. Just when the Devil thinks there is nothing that can surprise her after all the life stories she has seen and judged seven Demi-Gods appear on the banks of the Styx with a mandate from Zeus.
"Safeguard and harbor them for 7 months. Do not fail. Do not allow them to escape and make their lives hell."
While the latter instruction is her specialty there is little she knows about 'safe'.
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"I love you"
She stared silent, the shadows deepening around her eyes. Slowly she turned and walked towards the door, the only sound the ringing impacts of her heels against the stone.
There was nothing that she could say.