Seeing you so dejected, so broken hurt him even if it wasn't clear on his face.

He wished you could realize that you needed this. That this was for the best for the both of you.

He kneeled down to where you had sat on the ground wiping the pomegranate juice from your sweet lips as he cupped your face

“I'm sorry.”

he said There was remorse in his cool face.

“But I had to do this.”

he added, Since you ate his pomegranate gift you were now bound to him and Helheim eternally.