we’re gonna sing it again
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Hermes had told her one summer night that Orpheus was the son of a muse. Several things about him made much more sense once she knew that. But there was one thing she didn’t fully understand until this moment. His gift is bigger than himself, Hermes said to her when Orpheus was distracted. There are times where he gets lost in it. Many pray to be blessed by the gods, but it’s another thing entirely to have that blessing.
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Hades returns for Persephone too soon. Orpheus is lost in the song. Eurydice struggles to provide for two people instead of one.
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- Part 1 of we’re gonna sing it again
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Persephone lets out a quiet laugh. Beside her, the girl has gone stiff, her eyes glazed over as she’s taken somewhere else.
“I can’t remember the last time I heard him sing like that,” says Persephone, and the smile slips off her face.
When the girl speaks, her voice is little more than a whisper. “A field of flowers,” she breathes, bringing one hand to her throat. Something about the words makes her sob again.
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Persephone and Eurydice sit together when the workers are sleeping, and Persephone realizes just how much they’re alike.
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- Part 2 of we’re gonna sing it again
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You know the way, he reminds himself.
He holds the image of Eurydice in his mind—the last look she had given him, holding his hands in hers. She’d smiled despite the dirt on her face and the blood on his. She’d leaned in and kissed his cheek, pulled back, nodded once.
He thinks of her. He stands there and lets himself become familiar with the emptiness surrounding him. He starts walking.
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Orpheus succeeds in persuading Hades to let him and Eurydice go. But he discovers that wasn’t the hardest part. The hardest part lies in the distance between himself and the girl he loves. The distance he cannot turn around to measure.
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- Part 3 of we’re gonna sing it again
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Eurydice follows Orpheus out of the underworld, and the only thing she can think when he turns around is that she hopes he enjoys spring for her.
Orpheus, meanwhile, can’t do that when the main reason he brought spring back in the first place is gone.
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- Part 4 of we’re gonna sing it again