Pluto then snatched Proserpina and shoved her into the carriage. She was in so much distraught that she couldn’t fight back. “Please let me go” she begged. “I want you to live with me in my dominions, I have food and water just for you. You will enjoy it here.”
When they had finally arrived, Pluto tried to convince Proserpina to eat. He had an array of fruits, vegetables, and meats along a table. “I will never eat from you Pluto” she said. Meanwhile, Mother Ceres was panicking for her child. For months, she tried to find Proserpina but couldn’t. She had been so worried for her daughter that she could not care for her crops, so they died.
Nobody was able to eat so the petitioned Quicksilver to be sent to Pluto’s kingdom to find Proserpina. When he found her, she was pitiful and desolated. “Are you not terribly hungry? Is there nothing which I can get you to eat?"…show more content… "I have no appetite for anything in the world, unless it were a slice of bread, of my mother's own baking, or a little fruit out of her garden." Pluto tried finding fruit from the garden but could only find a half rotten Pomegranate. Proserpina declined at first, but couldn’t resist. She then bit into the Pomegranate and right after, the door of the apartment opened.
"I can see plainly enough, that you think my palace a dusky prison, and me the iron-hearted keeper of it. And an iron heart I should surely have, if I could detain you here any longer, my poor child, when it is now six months since you tasted food. I give you your liberty. Go with Quicksilver. Hurry home to your dear
