For one day every decade, one person will be admitted
per hour into the grand halls of Hades itself. This person must be desperately
in romantic love with a citizen of Hades, who must have died in some way before
the age of twenty-one. Every contestant will be brought into the heart of the
underworld and put face-to-face with their lost lover. They then have the one
hour to exit Hades with their lost lover, exiting solely by foot (void where
ferryman is necessary), and if the two should reach the mortal world, the lost
lover will be restored to life. The only challenge is that once the living
contestant comes face-to-face with their alleged lost lover, the two must not
break eye contact until they return to the mortal world. If the contestant
looks away at any time, at anything but this person he or she claims is so dear
that he or she would plunge into the underworld in rescue, then the citizen of
Hades will be ripped away and lost to them forever. It’s something of a bet
about mortal nature, and perhaps cynical, but it’s a chance.
I would be tempted to call a person who could meet that challenge crazy enough that even if they got me out of hell, I'd be reluctant to stay with them.
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