The soup helped Melinoe – a little. But three days with just it was taking a toll on her. She wondered if Nilus was lying to her about the soup not linking her to Hades forever. If it was all a lie, she would be starving to death for nothing.
Usually, she only saw a rough ceiling with stalactites piercing down. It was a rough mix of browns and greys with a splatter of glitter. She did not know what possessed Hades to add those, but it was more likely from when she was still a child. It was like an attempt to put a ribbon around a gargoyle statue.
On the day she could not get up, she saw galaxies turning around and around. It added to her lightheadedness. The browns and greys were replaced with blues and hints of yellows. She had not seen what galaxies looked like, but she had experience
