Quicksilver (2007)
“They danced in place, nodding their massive heads and swishing their tails. Kore stood behind me and wrapped her arms around my waist, her breath warm on my back as I took up the reins. It was a most pleasant sensation.“Ready?” I asked.“Stop!” The shout cut off her reply. It was Hades, who stood with Ascalaphus on Charon’s ferry. “Stop,” he repeated, “before I bring on the Furies!” They were mid-river. Charon was rowing harder than a galley slave in a sea battle.Kore clutched me. “Let’s go!” sh...e whispered. “We can still get away!”I turned to stare at her. No one gets away from the Furies. If Hades sent them, they would follow us twice around the world, screeching lustily all the way, and Kore knew it. But if she knew, she didn’t care, because she snatched the reins from me and cracked them, hard, before I could stop her.Hades jumped onto the shore. “Kore!” he cried. It was the sound of raw torment, as pained as anything I had ever heard from Tityus, or Tantalus, or Sisyphus.MoreLess
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