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The Goddess Persephone has left?

[a pause while he finds himself flailing somewhat internally.]

Great Lady, the one you wish to speak to is known as the Admiral. He alone has power over such things, which have been happening all over the ship.

...but if you are mother to her then you of all people should be able to convince him to restore her.

I am Demeter, her mother. I will have her restored to me with the conditions of her deal having been met.

Hail and welcome, Great Lady, but I fear I cannot fulfill your wishes, I am not mortal, but not a god, and none of us have any power over the whims that take whoever runs this place.

Given this...I suppose I should find aid in preparing your daughter's greenhouse for a cold snap.

I will remove the mortals their food if she is not released. Anything edible will be taken away.

O Demeter, it is not within my power to appease you, as I have said. None of us do, and the mortals on this vessel will thus suffer your wrath needlessly.

Yet...you are Goddess and thus should do what is good in your eyes.

I will pass on the warning.

They will not die; this ship is out of the natural order of things. They will be returned.

As you will, Great Lady.

[He wars with himself internally, wanting to just let the matter drop as there is nothing he can really do about it. Warn the humans? Why?]

[...except that with Aleera's departure from him he has officially lost everything from his old life, and he's grown sick to death of loss. Wary of it. Especially the loss of the few here who have treated him well.]

I will pass on your words to what Wardens I can find.

I can only say otherwise that I...appreciate...your position. Lady Persephone deserves true freedom.

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My daughter does deserve it, Dracula.

She is fond of you.

I...

[...am guilty of husbandly failings myself, if not crimes. But at least I was man enough to let mine go! At least...I can say that.]

--I have not the words, Great Lady. My comprehension of this matter is only that of a man, and I know it. But...she must gain her freedom. She must by her nature be far better than I ever was, and there are those who hold out hope even for me.

[Wait, whut?]

She is? I mean...I...

[He has to think about this because it means...in light of his conversation with Biff...that he has hard work ahead of him in order to truly deserve anything from her.]

I am...humbled, pleasantly. I must strive to be worthy of that fondness. [Not to stake a claim; he knows better. Just because...because...]

I was fully a blasphemous being before I met her. And too proud. When I think of her I want to be better than that.

Is your daughter a prisoner here?

Yes she is.

Mine as well. Your daughter's name?

Persephone.

I thought so. You are divine. I can see it well; I can feel it.

Your daughter knows my daughter.

I can see that you are divine as well.

I am not surprised that our daughters found one another in a place such as this.

Forces of nature held against their will here. It seems absurd. Unbelievable.

I am happy Coyolxauhqui is here.

I do not like this. I think the Fates have been interfering again.

Why are you happy?

I miss my daughter, but she has done fearful and terrible things. If she is here to learn her mistakes, then maybe she will see that her actions have hurt many, including her mother.

Yes, I can see that.

She keeps herself prisoner here. In time, she will be released.

Do you really think that?

Yes, I do. If it was untrue, I would destroy the earth to see her face in the sky.

Your daughter seemed to help my daughter. If this is so, then she needs to be here as well. It will make them less selfish.

I see.

What is your name?

Coatlicue - She of the Serpent Skirts. What is yours?

Demeter, Goddess of the Hearth.

Demeter. Our daughters will take care of themselves. They need to learn.

I will think on this, Coatlicue.

[Derp! Have Biff, waving at the camera and looking like he's trying to hold back the panic a bit.]

Hello! Hello, Persephone's mother! Ah -

[He flips open the file and checks it.]

Demeter. Yes, Demeter? Hello!

Please, no winter. We just had one. Four months ago. Persephone is okay.

She is not okay. She is here against her will.

Yes, I can explain this. She came here as a warden and there were some complications when she tried to help another goddess - like yourself - kill people.

And now she will stay here until she rehabilitates.

But! [He's working this like you wouldn't believe, Demeter!] But! As soon as she does, she can go home and never have to go back to Hades. That's preferable, right? I have just talked with the Admiral and made absolutely sure that she will receive this deal once she is not an inmate anymore.

But she is still an inmate now.

...Yes.

[...But. But.]

Let me start again. Perhaps I did not explain it as well as I could have -

[Demeter held up her hand.]

I would have destroyed the Earth for my daughter once, Biff. It is nothing to do it here again.

[Hm.]

If you destroy the Barge, Persephone has to go back to Hades. Every year, forever.

Is that what she would want?

Not if she left with her deal intact.

If she does not graduate, she does not get her deal. She came here to help people - not to kill them.

She did help someone.

That is very true. She did help someone. She helped Coyolxauhqui bring her brothers aboard so they could rip the hearts out of a lot of people here on the ship.

The Admiral has no right to hold Gods here.

You should talk to the Admiral instead of punishing us. We did not bring her here.

We are actually trying to help her leave, if you think about it.

I made my post open. He does not answer calls well, Biff.

This is true, also. You should try addressing him specifically. It took me four tries to get a response from him.

...Also, he gave me a cookie.

Hmm. My daughter believes him to be Zeus.

I know.

Why are you arguing with him if he is Zeus?