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[modernholmes]

[It hadn't taken long for Shinichi to head straight into the first disaster.  Less than a day after arriving in Olympus he had burned himself on Phlegethon's flames.  And now all he could think of was Ran.  All the pain he'd caused her.  All the guilt of the lies he'd told.

Feeling like this, there was no way he could take any joy in his true age.  And so he had shrunk back into Conan and found an isolated corner to sit and brood.]

....I'm sorry, Ran.

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[ofdeath]

I'm Hades. What am I not the expert of?

[modernholmes]

Hades. Of course. [He'd been pulled into this strange situation. Why wouldn't the pantheon of Greek gods be here?]

Hades. According to myth, the lord of the dead and ruler of the nether world. Hades possessed the riches of the earth, and was thus referred to as 'the Rich One'. Associated with the narcissus and the cypress.

That is common knowledge. I do not see how any of that makes you an expert in this.

[ofdeath]

Don't you get it? It's the big bad Zeus who brought you here. And me? I just like to see that waste of space have trouble, which means giving you ways to do that...by giving you things you want.

[modernholmes]

Ah, politics. [He briefly wishes he had paid more attention to western mythology. But at the time he'd studied it he'd primarily been interested in symbolism and associations. It often came in useful for riddle solving.]

But there is nothing I want that can simply be given.

[ofdeath]

Traded then.

[modernholmes]

If you offer me candy I'm going to scream.

[ofdeath]

Don't look down on candy! That aside, I can get you whatever you want.

[modernholmes]

I'm not in the habit of allowing other people to fix my problems for me.

[ofdeath]

You're not in the habit now...but we have a long time for you to change your mind.

[modernholmes]

That's unlikely.