"She was!" Zagreus says brightly. "She was...gods. She was practically overjoyed. Being able to finally meet her...I can't say how much it meant to me."

But he pauses a moment. He knows what she's probably thinking. It's the same thing that most people end up thinking, when they learned that his mother was missing most his life.

"She thought I'd died, you see. When I was born," he explains. "Or...I did die. But she didn't know that Nyx managed to bring me back."