Chapter 10
Toward the Light
The music spread out from Orpheus like ripples in a hidden pool when a pebble is cast into its midst. Light shone out like an aura that bound Orpheus and the shade together.
Eurydice followed closely, but as they reached the gaping gates guarded by Cerberus, Orpheus could already feel his faith wavering, the worry beginning at the back of his mind that she might not stay with him.
I must believe, he thought. Stay with me, my love, he begged as he played his song for the Underworld, for his love.
As Orpheus stood there, looking down the long desolation of the road ahead toward the Tartarian bridge, he could feel the deep, breathing bass of Cerberus towering over him, sniffing at his mortal frame and the shade that followed him.
She is with me, he told himse
