She received the gift of God [Greek mythology]

Hermes hugged Pandora tightly, lowered his head and kept kissing the honey-colored hair that had become dull due to dust.I couldn't see his expression, but he seemed to be speaking softly.

This is what Apollo saw when he came to check the situation.For no reason, Apollo suddenly thought that he had never seen him cry before.

"Hermes."

The messengers of the crowd looked up following the sound.

He has always put on a carefree appearance, but once he reveals his naked|naked emotions, he makes others feel at a loss.

Apollo could not bear to look away.

Hermes spoke instead: "Your prophecy will not come true. Can I ask you to do something for me?"

"of course."

Hermes hugged Pandora and walked up to Apollo: "I hope you can temporarily keep her body, and use your power of healing and purification so that she will not turn back into clay." He emphasized: "But, don't worry about her. Build a funeral pyre, don't prepare a shroud, and don't put silver coins in her mouth. I haven't given up."

"I will do it." Apollo took Pandora and couldn't help being stunned.Compared with the remains of mortals, she was too light, and when she was still alive, she didn't give him such an impression of lightness, but it seemed that the soul that had gone away gave her most of the weight.Seeing that Hermes was about to leave, Apollo asked, "Where are you going?"

"Olympus, of course."

On the top of the snow peak, the clouds cleared and the fog cleared.

The whole army of Guigantes has been killed, Gaia has fallen silent, and the Olympians have won a complete victory.The celebratory feast is scheduled for the evening when the stars begin to shine.But at this moment, the morning light was getting brighter, and after the fierce battle, all the J returned to their residences to recover their energy, and the golden palace seemed extremely empty.

Hermes came to the throne of the sky, leaned forward and said, "The ruler of the sky, King J who reigns over the earth, my father Zeus, please respond to my request."

A tiny spark flickered, and the figure of the King of Ten Thousand Kings appeared on the throne.The real body of Zeus is elsewhere, and the response to Hermes is King J's avatar in Olympus.

"Hermes, you have done a good job in lifting the protection of Epimea. Although you ask, I will not be stingy with rewards."

"Thank you so much, then... I beg you to use your J power to revive Pandora

, to give her a life as long as mine. "

This request seemed unexpected to Zeus.After a moment of silence, he said: "You have escaped the influence of the power of Eros."

"Indeed," Hermes placed the bent arrows of gold and lead on the ground, "as you have seen. But still I implore you to bring Pandora back from the sleep called death. The ruling cost her life, her pain should not have been in vain, and I think she deserves to be compensated."

Zeus didn't answer right away.

This moment of silence was euphemistic disapproval.Hermes was not surprised.Precisely because he expected that his father would not show Pandora's extra kindness, he planned it alone.Epimetheus was right.The fate of Pandora was almost doomed when she was born.It is an honor and a coincidence that she is endowed with life and spirituality. In the final analysis, she is still a tool of the crowd, and the fulfillment of her mission is the meaning of her existence.Pandora is unique to him, and in the eyes of the others, it is just one of thousands of creations.

Hermes lowered his head even lower: "If you think that what she has done is not enough to earn the qualification to re-enter Olympus. Then I respect and love my dear father, please think so, this is my Your child, a rare capricious request to you. Father J, please grant my wish."

He maintained a humble posture, raised his eyes and watched earnestly: "Since you gave me the envoy duty to walk between the sky, the earth and the underworld, I will follow your orders to complete the tasks you entrusted to me, to protect The majesty of Olympus and the law of order under your rule. So far, I have never made an outrageous and unreasonable request to you. It may be a matter of course for me to do so. It may be shameless greed to ask you to realize one of my wishes as a bargaining chip ,but……"

The fluent and beautiful words and sentences stopped suddenly.

When he spoke again, Hermes' voice did not tremble, and he declared gently but firmly: "Father, I want Pandora to be born again, and I long to have her by my side...I need her. I just need her."

The just and strict ruler of the sky stared at him for a while, then suddenly sighed.

"Forget it. I allow you to bring Pandora's soul back to Olympus."

Ecstasy lit up Hermes' face.He murmured his thanks, his voice was still echoing in the golden hall, but his figure had disappeared.

He descended directly from the top of Olympus into the hell leading to Hades.

gully.

With the golden staff in hand, the couriers of the J were unhindered, plunged into the cold and misty kingdom ruled by Hades, and headed straight to the Acheron River.

The souls of the dead who have not yet been buried, unable to pay the boat fare across the river, will wander on the banks of the Acheron River.

After the catastrophe in the world, people began to see off relatives and friends who died unfortunately. As a result, phantoms overlapped on the blue-gray river, and countless small boats were led by Charon to cross the water waves, heading towards the golden spike field deep in the mist.And on the shore, all you can see are lonely dead souls wandering around.The colors and luster emitted by the soul are different, most of them are mixed with various colors, presenting a chaotic and unspeakable appearance.

But Hermes immediately found Pandora.

She is so eye-catching, because her soul is injected into her body from Zeus' fingertips, she is extremely pure, and her halo is pure white like thunder and lightning.She didn't linger by the Acheron water like other dead souls, but stood quietly, with her back facing Hermes, looking at the dark and misty beyond.

Hermes came behind her in an instant, his lips opened, but he was speechless for a while.He couldn't tell whether the pain in his heart was the joy of reunion or the sorrow of being overwhelmed with guilt.

He reached out to the familiar figure, but stopped again.

How would she look when she turned around and saw him?

Is he really ready to accept all her resentment and anger?

Very rarely, Hermes tasted timidity.Then he thought.Even if nothing but hatred remained in her gaze towards him, it was a merciful punishment compared to never being able to meet her eyes.

So he lightly touched Pandora's spiritual body's shoulder.

She turned around to face him.

Nothing Hermes feared happened.

Pandora looked at him and smiled slightly at him.Perhaps because she was in a spirit state, that smile became more and more illusory, as if seen in a dream that she could not forget for many years, if she wanted to capture it with memory, she would slip away, but instead she lingered greedily.

So, Hermes just looked at her fixedly, his pupils slightly out of focus.

Pandora looked at him without evasion, clear and open, and there was some curiosity leaking from the way he looked at him.

curious?

Hermes returned to J in horror.

"Excuse me, do you know me?" Pandora lowered her eyes apologetically and said softly, "But I'm sorry

, I have drank the forgotten water of the Leather River, and forgot everything in my life. "

Hermes couldn't help taking half a step back.

The joy of leaving Olympus was gone, and he felt only cold, even though his cloak fell from his shoulders.

Waveless despair overwhelmed him, and he knew it was all over.

The dead man paid a silver coin to Charon the boatman, took the cup containing the water of Lyser from him, drank it and left it behind, and then crossed Acheron.And once you directly drink the Forgotten Water that meanders slowly in the underworld, the breath of death will permeate the soul, bringing irreversible peace, and completely depriving the dead soul of the opportunity to leave the underworld.

He can no longer bring Pandora back to Olympus.As long as she leaves the realm of death, her soul will disappear like the shadow of all things when the sun chariot comes to the sky at noon.

But why did she drink the water of Leather?Her body was still in the custody of Apollo, and no funeral was held.

"Charon!" Hermes called out.

The boatman of the Styx emerged from the mist with his oars, beckoning Hermes to board.

Hermes jumped into the boat, and the river bank was away from him in an instant.Pandora still stood at her original position, staring into the distance again, as if she didn't care about his abrupt conversation just now.

"I need an explanation. Why did she—"

"As you know, she didn't have the money to cross the river, so she couldn't go to the other side. But," Charon stopped paddling, and the boat swayed to a stop in the quiet center of Acheron's lake, "she called I appeared and begged me to give her the Water of Lesser."

Hermes heard his own sharp and weird voice: "Then you gave it to her?"

Charon took off his hood and rubbed between his brows as if feeling very tired.

"The first time, of course I refused. But she stubbornly repeated the same request. Finally... I finally agreed." The old man met Hermes' angry eyes and sighed kindly and cruelly:

"Because she looks so miserable."

Hermes lost expression on his face.

After a long time, he gave a low laugh, sharp and powerless.

"I tried to persuade her, telling her that if she drank the water of Lesser, she would not be able to turn back. Maybe you would come to her, maybe you would take her away. But—" Charon restrained himself.

Hermes rushes forward to the boatman

With half a step, the boat shook uncomfortably.He grabbed Charon's arm: "But? But how did she answer?" He was a little incoherent, his words were upside down, "What did she say? What did she say at the end... before she forgot everything... Did she leave me What message? Anything is fine, even if it’s cursing, it’s not for me, tell me, what else did she say?”

Charon didn't answer.He looked away pityingly.

The thoughtfulness of this acquaintance made Hermes almost go crazy.He smiled miserably and pressed on his chest.In the ups and downs of Xibei's beatings, this position seems to have become numb.

"Tell me, Charon, I can take whatever it is."

Charon stared at him for a moment, and told the story faithfully to the situation at the time.

He persuaded Pandora to wait a little longer.But she replied:

"I don't want to wait any longer. The 'Pandora' story ends here."