Persephone/Quotes

This details the dialogue and quotes of the Queen of the Underworld, Persephone. Be aware this page will contain **SPOILERS.**

## Greece

### Approaching

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Persephone: "Who's there?"
Zagreus: "Um... hello...?"
Persephone: "Hello, indeed!"
- *First meeting*

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## Conversations with Zagreus

### Greece

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???: "Pray, who might you be, wandering all the way out here? You're trespassing on private property, you know. Speak up!"
Zagreus: "*Erm*, you must be... Persephone. My name is Zagreus, and... I think I might be your son."
???: "*What*?! How dare...! Get out of here! Get out, or I shall make you!! *Out* with you!"
Zagreus: "No!! So then you *are* her. I, I don't care if you hate me, but I'm not leaving until I get some answers! I never even knew you existed. Why did you leave me?"
Persephone: "You died! You, you *died*...! Those burning feet, they... sputtered out, when you were born. But... now you're standing here before me. How...?"
Zagreus: "I died? I died... what, you mean *permanently* died, but I'm alive! Oh, gods... you never even knew I existed, either."
Persephone: "Alive! Zagreus, he... even kept your name! You live, how can this be, you live? *You live*...! Oh, the cruel Fates! My son!"
Zagreus: "Mother...!"
'<'TIME PASSES...'>'
Zagreus: "...In short, I beat him, finally, though he did everything he could to prevent our meeting here like this. But there's something he wanted me to tell you, in the end. He said to tell you Cerberus is doing very well."
Persephone: "*Ah*. He told you that, did he. That's good. That's good! Though, tell me something, Zagreus. How... is it that you found me? To have journeyed all this way, I scarce believe it... Zagreus?"
Zagreus: "*Ugh*... Oh, it's... guess I'm just a little tired, that's all. Not accustomed to the weather, as I think you call it."
Persephone: "No... no, that isn't it, it's that... you cannot stay here. You can't stay here."
Zagreus: "Really, you're... *heh*... kicking me out? Why?"
Persephone: "The Fates are cruel, Zagreus. You're bound that place... same as your father. So they would have us say good-bye, for now. My heart soars, knowing you live. Then it breaks, that our time together was so brief."
Zagreus: "No... I can... come back... I can come back, now that I found you, he... maybe he'll just let me come back."
Persephone: "You tell him I demand it. And I demand he also tell me how come he, or for that matter Nyx, never sent notice that you lived! Olympus is all rife with schemers, but I was so naive to think that they were different."
Zagreus: "I'll tell him... I'll tell him, I... fell awful. I... I have to go."
Persephone: "The Styx shall take you, then. Oh, Zagreus. Farewell, my son. Won't you come back to me? When you are able, please. Come back. I shall be waiting here. However long it takes."
Zagreus: "However... long... it takes..."
Zagreus: "Urgh... can't... hold... on..."
<Zagreus is taken by the Styx>
Zagreus: "Ungh... Mother... I have to get back there."

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### House of Hades

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Zagreus: "Mother, one thing I was wondering about was, how did you summon Charon to your surface residence? Especially without, you know, being dead."
Persephone: "Oh, why… he gave me his calling card after he graciously helped get me out of here the first time. No doubt at Nyx’s request, but still. Never thought I’d use it, but… I still kept it. Just in case."
Zagreus: "No idea what a calling card is, but OK!"

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