"Come with me," Persephone said, and turned back to him with a smile and a gentle hush when he protested, both hands twined around one of his own, "shush, husband, only come with me."

Hades could deny her smile nothing and followed, even as they passed into the mortal realm under Nyx's shroud. He hesitated only when she knelt, still clasping his hand, and looked up at him in the starlight with a coaxing smile as she drew him down into a bower that grew higher around them, flowers shimmering faintly in the starlight, just as she did.