Working with his gems, was he? Persephone smiled as well at his reaction and then nodded as she took in the garden. "You'd hardly know it was nothing but a patch of dirt and rock out here before I came. And the bees are loving it," she added, as one came to land on the rim of her glass. Persephone didn't shoo it away, holding an affection for bees. In Ancient times the people had called her Melitôdês, Honeyed One. "They'd keep it all growing now even if I were gone."