They were in the throes of an argument - Hades must have appeared just as Maci had left, the few minutes all he'd needed - and before Maci could even react, Hades had grabbed Tory and descended back to the Underworld with him. Before blindly charging after her father, Maci actually called her mother first. But Seph was utterly unhelpful, back to her typical biased nonsense and trying to somehow ''defend'' Hades' actions, urging Maci not to jump to the worst case scenario. Besides, it was spring, and Persephone reminded Maci that she could not return to the Underworld. Fuming, Maci abruptly gave up the argument, as talking to the brick wall that was her mother was only wasting time. Maci left Seph floundering there and set after Hades with no idea where he could have gone, only knowing that Tory was in danger and time was of the essence. She frantically tore through the Underworld everywhere she could think to look. Finally, she found them, tangled in an altercation on the edges of the cliffs of the Phlegethon River.