Page 102 of Hekate: The Witch (Goddesses of the Underworld #1)

War Seen Through Different Eyes

War is different

for those who are finite.

I learned this from

the stories mortals told me.

Immortals lived past it

yet mortals saw war as an ending.

To us in the Underworld,

every ending was a beginning.

If you were fortunate enough,

you awoke in the verdant green

of the glowing Elysian Fields,

a place where the virtuous and heroic went.

But most mortals at the end of a war

came to the Asphodel Meadows.

War brought a great influx of lost souls.

I watched them, hidden away in the mists.

The last time there was a war on Earth,

I tried to count how many dead

awakened in the mists of these

quiet, grey meadows.

I learned quickly never to do that again.