#assume hypnos is good and zagreus is good and Mel isn’t but that’s fine

[pepsiiwho]

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"Melinoe you just need to, yaknow, have faith in yourself."

she can't help the scoff that leaves her. It's sour and pinches up her expression "it's not that simple. He's in love with another girl. Some listless shade I'm sure, or maybe even another god or incarnate."

"Melinoe-"

"and you haven't even met him." She looks away, unable to watch her brother's expression "how would you know?"

Zagreus goes silent and seconds later a boney hand pushes his face, interrupting the moment. A chuckle and a high, raspy voice speaks out clearing the tense air like a window being broken. "I met him! And trust me Minnow, he'd jump off a cliff for you!" The words lay at her feet, little shards of glass that reflect back at her. "Well, I guess he'd jump off a cliff regardless but, he'd do it AGAIN for you! If that isn't love, what is?"

Melinoe nods, unable to frown anymore. The sour taste in her mouth stays, still too potent to ignore, but it lessens with the cheerful tone of sleep. Zagreus looks relived at the interruption but the upset doesn't leave his face. If she were to describe it, the look resembled the glass bottles of nectar she'd find outside the crossroads tavern, the ones with hairline fractures waiting in boxes to be tossed for good. Irreversibly broken but, seemingly fine. the thought stirs something in her.