"She is naïve for all her worldly airs," Persephone said, her fingers picking at Hades' sleeve. "While fluent in the Persuasion and Cunning of her masters, I see little girl very out of her depth. I leave prophesy to others, but no one needs the sight of Apollo to see that a pornai owned by gods will have an unhappy ending." Persephone's own kidnapping and forced marriage was not the norm. Most didn't end up a queen at the end of that bramble-edged path.