Chapter 49: He Had Me

Demi “To my knowledge, no one has ever been released from hell. Isn’t that right, Hades? It is your area of expertise, being the keeper of the underworld. It is up to you who stays and who goes.”               “How would I know?” Hades pulls something from his pocket. He snaps his fingers and lights it. He sits back in his seat and takes a deep pull from whatever it is that he is smoking. Zeus’s waves his hand and Hade’s chair flies backwards with him in it. He slams into the stone wall behind him. With another swipe of Zeus’s hand Hade’s chair slides along the wall and stops in a corner.             “You want to act like a child? You can be treated as one.” Zeus’s angered voice shakes the gathering room. The entire room erupts in laughter at how Zeus just sat Hades in time out. I felt the opposite though. I feel sorry for him. He came here today to ask for another chance, and he did it in the right way. Now he’s being treated like this.             “Back to the subject at hand. No, Ry