[He holds him tight and close, stroking his hair as he listens. His heart begins to beat quicker as an energy unlike anything he's ever felt begins to flood him with adrenaline.]

...Is that so? Did you manage to give him a piece of your mind, then?

[He stills himself, listening, trying to feel whatever Hades was feeling by what paltry stimuli he could glean.]

And now we are all powerless again for several more moons, if I have the right of it.