How Death Loved Spring
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What happens when a trickster god, a brooding death lord, and a spring goddess walk into a solstice feast?
Chaos. Also, Zeus wearing nectar apples as a hat.
Hades, King of the Underworld, just wanted to brood in peace.
Too bad Hermes spiked his wine with a "love magnifier" potion.
Now he's:
Accidentally yeeting fruit at Zeus
Brewing lavender tea like a lovesick barista
Literally haunting Persephone's garden like a goth shadow
A mythic rom-com where death needs therapy, spring has some madness, and the gods of Olympus just want to party.
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