Cold hands

'That was how Persephone met Aster. Or how Aster got a free cookie.'

Persephone Pandora Taylor was born in the year 1820 to her Greek mother and Italian father on a Monday at 11 am on the dot, her father dying the next year in the Greek war of independence, and in the year 1838 as the cholera epidemic was hitting Europe hard, her mother and herself fell ill. She doesn't remember much of that time, but she does remember dying...

and she hasn't felt this alive in years.