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Orpheus lead Eurydice out of Hades, deemed never to look behind him to see if she was there. He could not hear her presence or her footsteps; all there was for him was faith that she kept up with him, and that she wanted to follow at all.

But the illusion of this isolation ate away at his faith. The long trek piled doubt on him with every step.

Such a simple quick motion, to turn his neck. Yet the damage such a simple motion did.

And she was not behind him. Whether Hades' promise was a lie and she was never there, or whether she chose not to tempt fate, or whether she was wisped away to quickly for him to see her a final time, she was gone.