"Can you make me a god?"

"I could present you to my mother, and if she approved, you could become a goddess..."

"But I don't feel like it. You haven't done anything great enough anyway."

"Just you wait."

"Well, first you have to come back to life. To the wheel!"

"Right. I've got to warn the others about those vampire ghosts..."

"Tell them they're just a couple of dryad's brats!"

A note drifts down from... Somewhere.

It reads, "By divine decree, Malen is hereby BANNED from reincarnating in the Garden of Sophia. Also you were wasting those vampire ghosts' potential on your dumb chorus, so there!"

"If they're so great, why don't you marry them!" the death god shouts after running his eyes over the note. He looks at Malen. "Oh, and Sophia banished you from her garden."

"She can do that? How do I get back?"

"You don't. That's the point."

"But... My friends..." The thought of never seeing them again - because it's rare to die at the same time as someone specific, and she doesn't want to spend forever here waiting for each of them, and... and...

Angry tears start to well up in her eyes.

"Ah, are you going to do that crying thing? It makes me feel funny to hear."

From her expression she might be doing the crying and contemplating deicide thing.

"You could stay and be a ghost if you wanted, I guess. You'd be immortal."

"I'd get bored. ...Can you get to the Gardens from each other? I just... Gotta get back..."

"I guess. Not sure if it's allowed but. Do ya want garden suggestions? My twin's is alright I guess."

"Which one's that?"

Veles launches into an unimpressed sounding recitation. "The Garden of Perun, master of farming, the hearth, all manner of cats and the destruction of vermin. The kids up there mostly grow fruit and vegetables and stuff."

"Could start there, I guess."

"Oh, Perun!"

A few seconds pass, echoing hollowly through the cavern of the underworld. Just when most would assume there was no response, a great lioness emerges from the mists, the sound of its paws splashing in the water the only sound it makes. On its back is a naked boy. Specifically a boy who looks almost exactly like Veles, although a touch less pale.

"Yes, brother?" he says with some restrained exasperation. 

"This girl got banished from Sophia's garden. Can she crash in yours?"

"Why do you guys look the same?" She's guessing 'brother' is like 'close friend.' Maybe they picked the same face to show off how good of friends they were? That seems weird, though.

"We're twins," he answers bluntly.