There are maps drawn by hope, and others drawn in darkness. The one that led to the depths of Hades for Eurydice was both, for no living soul ever truly charts the shadowed lands below and returns unchanged. It is said that after the fatal bite—the viper's sudden kiss—Eurydice's path split from the world above, a fissure where sunlight cannot reach, and she fell into the silence of the Underworld.
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