Broken promises

Pain. It had been the last thing he'd felt as he'd passed on. Pain and hope that his family would be able to move on without him. Even though it was unfair, he felt, that he should die so young he still hoped that some good would come out of his death and he was grateful? so grateful he'd passed before the disease made him do something horrid. If his jaws had met his mother's throat?


Ruby gaze closed softly. He was with the gods now he supposed. In this ethereal world that wrapped itself around him like a dream. He could feel the world, feel eternity stretching out around him but it was then a mind touched him that he recognized. Helios. Father? Was this alright of him to do? To visit his father in a dream? Surely. Surely this was right.


Hermes stepped through the veil into the dream of his father. Nervous, excited. Even if Helios believed it was merely a dream he wanted to see the other again. "Father? Thank goodness you're alright. How is mother?"