Episode 26: You Called, You Answered

Season 1

Apr 24

Editor: Bekah Caden

Released: 1 August 2018

Persephone answers Hades’ phone call, and they both say “Hello?” at the same time. Hades says it’s late. Persephone points out that he’s calling her, and he replies that she answered.

He says that text messages really help if you add your name, and she groans when she realizes her mistake. She asks how he figured out that she was the one texting him, and he responds that he doesn’t go around gifting coats to beautiful women all the time.

Persephone says he could have just asked who it was, and Hades agrees and apologizes. She tearfully tells him he’s 100 percent a scoundrel, then corrects herself and says 40 percent.

“When I first saw you at the party, you looked sad. When I carried you into the house, you felt sad. And you sound sad right now.”
Hades

Hades hears her sniffling and asks if she’s crying. Persephone denies it but Hades says that as King of the Underworld, he knows crying when he hears it. He offers to call another time instead, but Persephone asks him not to hang up, because she doesn’t want to be alone. She’s homesick.

Hades offers to take her home, but Persephone declines, saying if she were to go home now, she might never come back. Hades assures her she’s not alone, saying that Olympus wears him out and has terrible coffee. Persephone giggles at his joke and smiles for the first time all night. In the kitchen, she rummages through the fridge while admitting she’s embarrassed at having cried in front of Hades twice now.

Persephone insists she doesn’t cry all the time, but Hades doesn’t believe her. He jokes that he knows a thing or two about being blue, and Persephone groans at his pun. Hades continues that Persephone seems unhappy; not just sad but melancholic. Indignant that he would comment on her emotional state, Persephone insists that she’s happy, since she’s the “friggin’ Goddess of Spring!” She says Hades is arrogant for making that assumption, and he agrees. She can hear that he’s smiling and tells him to stop. Hades elaborates that he doesn’t want Persephone to feel like he’s dissecting her, but he points out that when he saw her at the party, she looked sad, and when he carried her into his house, she felt sad. When he tells her that she sounds sad right now, Persephone doesn’t answer, her head in her hands.

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