[In the taking away, or the keeping? Because being ordered to let her go (and arranging things so he's unable to do so) is a bit different than a promise or vow. Better question, is she still unable to eat anything while she's down here lest she lose even MORE time above? Because that would just be extra-terribad... Well, maybe food gets imported.
Hercules absently noticed her gentle grace riding him, thanking Zeus for that; this would be so much trickier if he had to constantly adjust her or deal with fearful shrieking. Thanks for picking a good one, Orpheus!] Punishment? Well, you may wind up cursed, but that's a temporary inconvenience; at least, it is when I return here and pay the price to have the thing lifted. Uncle never could resist a chance to bargain. [The words came out easily even as he picked up the pace, souls and shades going by faster and faster as the wind of their passage began to pick up.]
As for punishing me, that's a trickier notion by far; did I not submit to it freely, there's little he could do to me outside these darkened realms. There's a reason he likes bargaining, you see... [And while Herc's surely not going to rely on it, he does remember Hades calling him 'his favorite nephew' a time or two. He'd given the Lord of the Dead a LOT of business down through the years, after all.
And off in the distance, a spot of healthy green appears- and is gradually growing bigger.]
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[In the taking away, or the keeping? Because being ordered to let her go (and arranging things so he's unable to do so) is a bit different than a promise or vow. Better question, is she still unable to eat anything while she's down here lest she lose even MORE time above? Because that would just be extra-terribad... Well, maybe food gets imported.
Hercules absently noticed her gentle grace riding him, thanking Zeus for that; this would be so much trickier if he had to constantly adjust her or deal with fearful shrieking. Thanks for picking a good one, Orpheus!] Punishment? Well, you may wind up cursed, but that's a temporary inconvenience; at least, it is when I return here and pay the price to have the thing lifted. Uncle never could resist a chance to bargain. [The words came out easily even as he picked up the pace, souls and shades going by faster and faster as the wind of their passage began to pick up.]
As for punishing me, that's a trickier notion by far; did I not submit to it freely, there's little he could do to me outside these darkened realms. There's a reason he likes bargaining, you see... [And while Herc's surely not going to rely on it, he does remember Hades calling him 'his favorite nephew' a time or two. He'd given the Lord of the Dead a LOT of business down through the years, after all.
And off in the distance, a spot of healthy green appears- and is gradually growing bigger.]