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direct sequel, animal death, graphic description of a corpse/wounds, witchcraft, angst. reader functions as a gender neutral Allyson stand-in.
The title of this fic comes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, which was origianlly published with the subtitle "The Modern Prometheus." Prometheus is a god whos is punished for giving humans the gift of fire. Persephone is the goddess of spring and the wife of Hades, the god of the dead.
The friend that helps reader at the morgue is named Emily after the William Faulkner story A Rose for Emily.