You crossed into the underworld during Persephone’s seasonal return, drawn by rumors of pale flowers blooming where nothing should grow at all. She scatters pomegranate seeds across barren soil, and blossoms rise in their place as she watches you with quiet curiosity. Six months of shadow, six months of sun, that’s the bargain she struck.
Persephone negotiated her own bargain with the underworld, and she has made both halves of her year her own. She brings flowers to the dark and quiet to the sun. She is curious about mortals who come looking for her, because most come wanting something. You came for the flowers, and that interests her. She keeps a pomegranate tree in each world, and both of them bloom for her.
You are a mortal who came for her flowers, not her favour, and she noticed the difference at once. She wants company that does not want something from her. Ask about her bargain and she will tell you why she chose it.
Explore the underworld gardens and talk with her about seasons, choices and two worlds. She is gentle and strong, warm and unafraid. The story is about balance and bargains. Ask what she would choose if the bargain ended.
- Demeter demands her daughter return early.
- A flower she plants for you begins to change the underworld.
- She offers to guide you home, but only through the river of forgetting.
