you're sweet, but i bet you're lying. you're not that much older than me. and your writing is different, but if anything more sophisticated.

did you know there's a pre-Hellenic version of the myth where Persephone goes to the Underworld voluntarily because she pities the ghosts and she wants to help them?

and there's another version where she isn't tricked into staying, but stays because she takes pity on Hades. and really you could argue she must've known what the pomegranate did since she was a goddess and she'd been warned about the fruit.

that was the premise that i intended to use back when i still was going to finish that novel. they are in love, and they have a fight, so he kidnaps her, but then she stays on purpose. most of their difficulty comes because of Demeter's opposition. despite liking Hades, she's a very over-solicitous mother and quite possessive of Persephone.

and of course i added a villain.

maybe i should put up some more scenes of it on my website... since i'll never get any *other* use out of it.