@caimkairos said ; "Well, it's not that easy, y'know-" It's an absolute chaotic area, Persephone's lab, with several corpses strewn about- and what seems to be a formerly potted plant which has now taken root in her hair. "It's not just a matter of putting a body back together, it's getting the right soul into it, making sure memories don't leak over- there's a /reason/ they drink from the Lethe, you know- ahhh, it's a whole thing! People thinking they can just 'revive the dead' are amateurs, really."
𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐩𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐧 in the middle of her explanation as he followed the woman from behind, and with his black leather gloves clenched tightly around the handle of his shovel, Andrew´s senses were particularly awake as he entered the mysterious abandoned looking place, awake just in case anything dangerous could happen.
who knew? perhaps this was a trap- perhaps someone was waiting for him- to hurt him- he did´t know, there was no way of knowing, the only thing that was giving him the faintest sense of calmness to his heart was the kindness in which Persephone has treated him before, but even with that thought in mind, he was begining to feel unease, scared, trapped. It was all his fault, perhaps he had been too naive to trust someone only because they have touched him with a little bit of warmth.
Cold sweat started rolling down his forehead, and his fingertips began to feel cold despite the thick gloves covering them. This was a bad idea- he knew it-- he should have stayed in the cemetery, where it was safe, where no one ever came to visit it just like those old forgotten tombstones. A step is taken back, and he is ready to get out of that suffocating place as soon as her attention shifts to something, anything, yet it is precisely in that moment, right as he was about to run that she turns around, almost as if she had read his thoughts, and it is her gaze, tired and unhealthy, yet calm and warm that manages to stop him before he can even start saying something.
❝ Re...vive the....dead...? ❞ Right━ he has been so focused on planning for ways to escape that he has completely forgotten to pay attention to her! Now he must be looking like a complete idiot! Fidgeting a little with the handle of his shovel, he comes to the conclusion that he has absolutely no idea what she is talking about, so he decides to pull out his spectacular social skills to use, and hopes for the best;
❝ Yes━ i agree ❞ on what? god knows
