For the Goddesses: For Psyche

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“Let no man ever love that beauty. And, instill in her heart some insignificant and base love, and make her live in the humiliation of receiving no reward even for that.”

Every night, just as complete darkness descended without a single ray of light, he came down to the window.

“For instance, living a lifetime of disgrace and solitude as the abandoned wife of a monster.”

In the quiet darkness, all uncertainty crawled like a monster. Merely imagining that he might turn violent and strangle her, or that if he vanished just like this, he would never appear again.

“To that arrogant princess, use your power to teach her the price of unjust beauty. Eros.”

Nevertheless, whenever he came down to the window, she would forget all her anxieties as if by a lie.

“What if I am the monster I heard about?”

“You must be the husband I imagined.”

In the end, the god who had betrayed his mother leaned his head over the princess on her bed. His broad shoulders cast an invisible shadow over the bed as he swallowed the princess.

Is your love truly as perfect as mine?