Orpheus - Haunting the Dead.pdf - Dice

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EURYDICE
course, drove girls nuts about him, and they chased him
everywhere. We’re suckers for the romantic types.”
“I see, I see,” said Anders. “I should be taking notes.”
“You should! At any rate, finally these girls who
worship Dionysus start chasing after him, and these
girls won’t take no for an answer. When he won’t
submit to their advances, they drive themselves into
such a frenzy that they rip him to pieces.”
“Wow.”
“Yeah,” she said, looking back up at him. She had
these very light freckles, right under her eyes. It wasn’t
the kind of thing Anders had noticed right off the bat,
but once he had, it became the most adorable thing in
the world to him.
“His head and his lyre float down the river, still
playing music. The Muses gather up his body parts and
burn them, and Zeus puts his lyre up in the stars for all
to remember him.”
“And that’s it?”
“Not quite.” Lila’s eyes twinkled. “Once he went
back to the realm of the dead, he found Eurydice, and
the two of them stuck together from then on. It’s said
he never takes his eyes off of her, now that he can look
at her without anything going wrong. It’s sweet, I
think.”
Anders leaned back and looked at the stars, now
starting to come out. He took a deep breath, feeling
heady, full of hope, a wave of passion and desire and
serenity all mixing around inside him like some kind of
alchemy. “Yeah,” he replied dumbly, thinking of her.
“It is.”
“Not half as sweet as you are, though,” she told him,
her tone flattering. “I’m afraid to kiss you, thinking my
teeth might rot right out.”
“They might, huh?” He shifted his weight, turning
to move his head closer to hers. “I say we test out that
little theory.”
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