For the next five years, Maci continued to travel with her mother seasonally. Her spring-summer sessions were spent amongst increasing hostility, a combination of Demeter’s typical obnoxious nonsense coming up against Maci’s short-tempered predisposition. Armed with the rage of a slightly spoiled princess and actual literal pyrokinetic superpowers, Maci reacted to her grandmother’s mistreatment and the general judgment of the Olympians around her by acting out a reign of terror: picking fights, fighting back, and setting things on fire. Meanwhile, autumn-winter time back home was enjoyed as a life of luxury, doted upon by her reunited parents, and spending time with her closest and only friends, twins [[Hypnos]] and [[Thanatos]]. When Maci was 10 years old, Seph petitioned Demeter to allow Maci to make an active decision on whether she would prefer to continue travelling seasonally as Seph was obligated to or stay fulltime in the Underworld. Maci chose to remain in the Underworld, where her perfect Princess life and friends were.

Maci had never known her father without her mother at his side. The version of Hades who existed when Seph was home in the fall was Maci’s hero; though always stiff in nature, and usually slightly bowled over by Maci’s overwhelming energy, he had set aside a designated soft spot for his little daughter next to the spot reserved for his wife, and Maci cherished every second she could spend with her father. Hades had also, of course, never been responsible for taking care of Maci without Seph there with him.