Thanatos led them to a shade sitting on the steps of a squat gazebo without a roof on top. Kath ran the distance left separating them and grinned back at Enrico who merely opened his arms. She was clueless about how it happened, given that this was practically his soul. Nonetheless, he held her as tightly as she did him, laughing in a way that made Hades and Thanatos pause in their tracks.
“There’s something you don’t see here every day,” Thanatos quietly said with a small smile playing on his lips.
Hades snorted, hands shoved into his pockets. As they walked, watching the two unlikely friends catch up. “What—joy? Laughter? An odd bit of happiness?”
The general shrugged, chewing on his bottom lip ring. “Light,” he replied. He glanced at Hades sideways. “You don’t see it?”
Hades paused
