Fantasize about the Shepherd

You stare into the spiral, statue's eye intoxicating as you see before you the skin on the statue mend itself, her becoming a gorgeous woman. The spiral starts seeming to swirl, and you begin to follow the woman as she walks through the spiral, sexily swaying her hips as she leads the way. You, like a fool, follow. Amazingly, you can actually walk through, as you find yourself on a black sand beach, a river flowing near to you. The sand burns a little, so you get up and brush your hands off. Huh, never seen glowing sand before, you think. Come to think of it, you're not sure you can actually see the other side of the river.

Time passes idly, though you're not sure by how much. Eventually, you see a man approach you, your soul instantly recognizing him as Hades. Well, shit. Seems you've made a fool of yourself in front of your god. "Gotten lost, have we? Didn't take you for the type to go for half-dead things, although I suppose I shouldn't be too terribly surprised." He lifts you up, and causes a wind to blow along your feet, getting all of the glowing grains of sand off them. Suddenly, you realize that the sand had been hurting you, as a subtle heat that had been at your feet is now absent. "We should be going now, before -" "Hades, darling, whatever are you doing here? It's not polite to meddle in people's affairs." The man pauses, turning towards the woman as he frowns, as if thinking. "Hello, Hel. A ray of sunshine as always, aren't you." "Seems to me that you are invading my influence. Surely you realize this is a slight I can't overlook." "Oh can't you?" He casts a spell and a floating disk appears behind him, which he sets you on. "There, that should keep you safe from the sands while I deal with this woman." He then puts two fingers in his mouth and a shrill whistle erupts, causing you to need to cover your ears.

Suddenly, a cloaked figure carrying a scythe and a wild-looking man with a bow appear at Hades' left and right, respectively. "Did you really have to call me now? I was in the middle of a hunt." "You're always in the middle of a hunt, brother," the cloaked figure speaks making it clear that she is, in fact, a she. Huh, the grim reaper is a woman, who knew? "At least I'm not always in the land of the living, reaping the souls of the dead," he chides. "Children, can we not focus right now? We have a bit of a situ-" but his words are cut off as the woman, clearly Hel, leaps forward and attacks with her staff, Hades just managing to summon his bident in time to ward off the attack. The man narrows his eyes, and retreats to a distance, summoning a quiver of arrows to his back as he carefully aims, bow drawn. The cloaked woman then readies her scythe, and casts a spell on it, which it begins to glow. The battle commences, very few blows being landed on either side as their mutual defense is simply too strong to be overwhelmed with this level of coordination on Hades' side. Eventually, the decisive blow comes from the cloaked woman, her scythe glowing as it finally connects; divine light entering Hel's side as she has been smitten. She takes the blow rather poorly, backing away as she says, "very well, Hades. You can have this one."

Hades now turns to you, and sends the disc you're on a certain direction. "This should take you to my house. Go have a seat at the table and we'll discuss over dinner what comes next." The disc indeed takes you to a house and inside is a long table, with spots for eight chairs but only seven, you sitting at the end seat, an empty place at your right.