These days it felt as if her emotions were no longer something she could keep neatly contained. They rose too quickly, pressed too hard, and refused to quiet down no matter how much she reasoned with herself. She hadn't known loving someone would feel like this, so frustrating, so consuming, so painfully inconsistent.
There were moments when she felt like the happiest person in all of Salestas, and that was when she knew a side of Hades that no one else did. She had seen the subtle shifts in his expression, heard the tone he reserved only for her, and noticed the quiet ways he softened when no one was watching. In those moments, she felt special, as though she was the only person in the world who could be granted such chance to see this side of him.
