Aegis (In This World or Any Other), Chapter 9.
AEGIS (In This World or Any Other) » A Reylo Persephone/Hades AU
Those whom the gods love die young. To obtain a god’s attention is to hand over your life, so keep your head down and pray that they never notice you.
She took pity on the god no one ever visited, the god she doesn’t believe in, when she started leaving small offerings at his feet. She should have listened to local superstition.
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“You took something from my realm.”
There it is. That annoyingly crisp voice, every word perfectly enunciated with intent to dig into Kylo’s brain like claws against iron.
Kylo stalks past Hux and towards his dais, purposely ignoring him as their cloaks kiss, a rush of blotty midnight ink brushing pristine white, bright as sunbreak. Except here, at least, Kylo blends into his surroundings. Hux sticks out like a sore thumb.
“Who let you in?” he asks, careful to maintain a veneer of calmness as he takes his seat, long legs stretching out, knees bent and seemingly relaxed even as everything in him strains, taut corded muscle straining against the heavy fabrics of his tunic with the barely suppressed, cautious wariness of a predator sizing up another.
“I let myself in,” Hux says, the knife sharp clicking of his heels grating on Kylo’s ears as the god of the skies makes a deliberate show of walking about slowly, looking around the throne room as though he hasn’t already seen it a thousand times, a million times. “Seeing as you barged into my own home without invitation, I figured we’re past such pleasantries as waiting to be announced, don’t you think?”
Author’s note: I am that awful person who continues to update her fics at fuck-o-clock in the morning despite knowing better, every single time, but I hope you enjoy it <3
