Pseudo-Persephone

Yesterday, 8/6:

"It's like, a chocolate pomegranate thing," he said, intently applying teeth to the still some-frozen cold dome of chocolate.

plastic wrap lining a small bowl,
microwave-tempered chocolate shell filled with
freshly-picked blackberries (and more chocolate for structure),
set in shape by time and a freezing,
chocolate leaves and berries added at the end

I watched
the chocolate hull of the cake hemisphere gradually give way under white enameled pressure, revealing an interior of many cold juicy beads.

I built him a cake that won't leave anyone stranded in Hades