(Lethe loves it at home, despite the fact that she now knows the very very stark contrast between home and the rest of the world. But it's still home and it's hers and she's very much allowed to like it all she wants.)
AHEM. YES.
The Lady is beautiful and the Lady brings, for all that she is dark like the rest of them when she is home, sunshine with her. Or at least she is something very much like it. (Which is something that all of the dark things secretly crave sometimes.) The Underworld is brighter when the Lady is there. And there is nothing wrong with wanting to see the Lord Hades happy - because he does deserve it, even if other people would not exactly tend to think so.
The Lady is very much an ideal in Lethe's eyes. And, in a way, the idea of disappointing her is even more frightening than disappointing the Lord Hades. Perhaps because he is far more routinely angered? But also because the Lady knows a great deal more than Lethe herself does - she has seen the world both ways, has been more places and witnessed them with her own eyes and not borrowed and scraped together from memories and trinkets, and because the Lady watches them with the sort of attention that Lethe rather figures she gives the rest of everything too. The Lady is smart and very much capable and she's strong. Lethe only sort of wishes that she was good at that.
And, well, sometimes the Lady is very terribly sad. Because, Lethe imagines, it's very hard to be two things all at once.
AHEM. YES.
The Lady is beautiful and the Lady brings, for all that she is dark like the rest of them when she is home, sunshine with her. Or at least she is something very much like it. (Which is something that all of the dark things secretly crave sometimes.) The Underworld is brighter when the Lady is there. And there is nothing wrong with wanting to see the Lord Hades happy - because he does deserve it, even if other people would not exactly tend to think so.
The Lady is very much an ideal in Lethe's eyes. And, in a way, the idea of disappointing her is even more frightening than disappointing the Lord Hades. Perhaps because he is far more routinely angered? But also because the Lady knows a great deal more than Lethe herself does - she has seen the world both ways, has been more places and witnessed them with her own eyes and not borrowed and scraped together from memories and trinkets, and because the Lady watches them with the sort of attention that Lethe rather figures she gives the rest of everything too. The Lady is smart and very much capable and she's strong. Lethe only sort of wishes that she was good at that.
And, well, sometimes the Lady is very terribly sad. Because, Lethe imagines, it's very hard to be two things all at once.
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