A Symphony of Sirens (Spellsinger Book 2) by Amy Sumida

Author:Amy Sumida [Sumida, Amy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-06-24T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Nine

I'm sure you've heard of the story of Persephone and Hades. What you may not have heard is that when Persephone went missing, her mother, Demeter, charged her daughter's four best friends with the task of finding Persephone. Demeter gave the ladies wings to better conduct their search, and the women scoured the entire world for their friend. But, of course, Persephone wasn't in the world; she was under it. Well, technically the Greek Underworld, AKA Hades, is in another realm entirely, not beneath ours. But you get the idea. It was impossible for the sirens to find their friend.

When their failure became glaringly obvious, Demeter cursed the women. They were given the most beautiful voices, to eternally call to their mistress and lure her home. Except these voices sang the most sorrowful of songs; music which Persephone –as a goddess– was ironically immune to. Outside of the race of gods, only a few witches have proved themselves able to resist the call of a siren. Everyone else succumbs to their song and dies . . . usually through suicide. Thus, the only people who have managed to have children with sirens have been gods and witches; rare on the later account.

What I'm getting at is the siren connection to Persephone. The Greek goddess took off with her boyfriend and left my family twisting in the breeze. Persephone had made her apologies to the original four sirens, and they had made their peace with her, but everyone knew that Persephone owed them; she owed them big time. I headed to Hades in the hopes that Persephone would be willing to repay a little of that debt.

Cerberus and I had to pass through the Veil to get into the Realm of the Greek Underworld. Since it was in another realm, we were able to use our Shining One traveling stones to jump right over to it, without having to go into Tír na nÓg first. I had thought we'd be able to go straight to Hades's Palace, but the stones took us to one of the Gates instead. Since Cerberus was no longer at his post, I'd expected the Greek Underworld to be unguarded. How silly of me.

There was more than one way to get into Hades. Now that Cerberus wasn't guarding his gate, it had been shut off entirely, forcing us to use another entrance. Our stones deposited us directly in front of a gate I'd never seen before; an imposing structure of black stone columns and ironwork. The spikes atop the iron gates were adorned with body parts, not all of them human. Before this gory display was a monster. Perhaps you've heard of it; the Hydra.

Hydra has several heads, though not as many as you might think. That whole thing about cutting one off and two sprouting in its place is absolutely true. The thing with that is, once someone discovered Hydra's head trick, no one else wanted to test their luck. So there were eight, massive snake heads swaying above ours on their reptilian necks.

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