And just like that, I had absolutely nothing that I could say, nothing that I could do that could have possibly made me feel better, that could have possibly ended up giving me back the courage that I had been lacking since the moment that he had spoken, since the moment that he had actually gone ahead and spoken. I would have been lying if I said that I wasn’t surprised, that I hadn’t been shocked by the fact that he had actually called me back, and so soon too. My heart literally felt as if it had somehow managed to lodge itself within my throat, as if it had somehow managed to make its way out of that familiar crevice inside of my chest where it belonged. I just couldn’t wrap my head around the fact that it was actually him, that I had actually been right to believe that the Hades who
