Persephone tries, but her seed takes no root: the soil too hot, the seas too poisoned.

Her mother weeps, weeps the whole way down underground as she follows Persephone down for the first and final time; she is the first Olympian to go to the final kingdom, but not the last.

Hades' arms fold around his wife the second she crosses the Styx for the last time; he, like she, sheds no tears, for they are long-used to the pain of being barren.