"...When did it start?" Dahlia asked
Arachne turned her angry eyes back to her.
"You're just–"
"When did it start?" Dahlia cut her off, with an even angrier tone in her voice.
Her anger surprised Arachne and even her friends, and Dahlia herself. But she couldn't stay still. She couldn't swallow that someone had been very purposely harming Hades, and using her absence to damage the Underworld all along. Arachne, too, seemed to realize the once queen wasn't playing around. She lowered her head submissively a bit.
"...Since you left," she admitted. "It wasn't obvious straight away, but our jailers got more ruthless, more brutal. I saw souls land in the deepest parts of Hell, where they didn't belong, and be ruined into oblivion. I saw many receive harsher punishment than their crimes.
