“Oh dear, okay…um…” Hermes cleared his throat, “so, when i was a lot younger, barely just in my majority, i met a young mortal man named Krocus. He was like perfection, heaven on earth, oh, how I loved him. When I felt like I had admired him for long enough I took the disguise of a Shepherd and travelled to Earth to meet him. Only my beautiful Krocus was too shrewd to fall for my disguise and to my delight he returned my affections.
I spent every day from then on with him. I lost all care for my duties and responsibilities; I was too deeply in love. We even discussed, however briefly, me giving up my godhood so we may grow old together as I am cursed for eternal youth and immortality. Then one fateful day, my love asked me to teach him to throw the discus, a large, rounded, flat, shaped disk. A sport I myself am credited with the invention of. Never wishing to disappoint Krocus i obliged and we travelled to the fields where i taught him the sport…his laughter delighted every element of me and that is when it all went wrong…” Hermes paused and chewed his lip “i don’t quite recall the precisions but one second i was throwing the discus, the next, my Krocus was collapsing…the discus caught his head, I don’t know how and I held him as he began to die. I tried to heal him but I am not a healer and his wounds where too great. I shouted for Apollo who was helpless, unable to recall life to those too far gone. My sweet Krocus died in that field, and, unwilling to truly let him go, i did my best to let him live on. His body in the grass i transformed into flowers. Beautiful, sweet scented delicate flowers that were then named after Krocus in his memory, the Crocus flower…he never travelled to Hades and instead grows and lives on for everyone to admire his beauty. I was later told three versions of the events…the first that a wind god, Zephyr, was also in love with my Krocus and painfully jealous that he only returned my affections and so…and so he blew the discus off course, with every intent on killing my love. The second that Krocus wished to try and impress me and so leaped to catch the discus, causing my aim alone to be the cause of his death…and the third…the third I do not wish to be true. It states that Krocus was having an affair with another deity and that led to the event. All i know was I threw the discus and my sweet, sweet, Krocus died because of it…” Hermes bowed his head, wiping his eyes discreetly “sorry, I rambled on a little but I have to do his memory justice”