57- Persephone

She could see him standing right there at the other side of the road but he was distracted because he had a crowd around him and he was smiling.

Smiling the way he smiled at her when they were together.

She looked around, hoping she would see a familiar face but the people who passed only sneered at her, their words cutting her sharply at the sides.

Pharmakis.

Witch.

Her eyes frantically searched everywhere for someone but when she realized all she had left was him, she decided to call out to him. "Leonidas!"

But he did not turn.

Her heartbeat rose immediately, the fear that he could not hear her, or perhaps, was ignoring on purpose struck a determined need to reach him.

Her legs took her first before her mind could process the information.

She ran as fast as she could, screaming his name along the way but all of a sudden, the ground beneath her sunk and she was going below.

She could feel the hands clawing her feet, dragging her back to where she had escaped from.

Dragging her back t