Persephone closed the small distance between them slowly, before putting her hands on Hades' cheeks to look at him seriously. "She is more than two thousand years old," she reminded him. "To you she is a child, but Makaria is a woman, a adult. This world is not what it was; what happened to me is not going to happen to her. And," she said, letting go of his face, "if you don't release your grip, you're likely to lose her completely."