Persephone

The world above tells the story of the taking.
The girl in the field. The flowers. The ground opening. The mother's grief so complete that the world stopped growing. The bargain, the return, the six seeds that divided the year between the world above and the world below.
The world above tells this story because the world above needs the explanation - needs to understand why the cold comes, why the flowers die, why the world goes gray every year in the specific quality of something that has lo...