One of the tasks Aphrodite demanded of Psyche was to journey to Hades' palace in the Underworld and get a box of beauty from Persephone. She got Charon to ferry her across the river and made it past Hades three headed dog Cerberus. Persephone was happy to do a favor for Aphrodite and gave Psyche a box. But on the way back, Psyche noticed that her difficult tasks had taken their toll on her appearance. Believing she would be reunited with Cupid soon and that she could not see him looking like this, Psyche opened the box of beauty in the hopes of using just a little for herself. But she found the box empty and immidiatly fell into a deep sleep. By this time Cupid was searching for her and, awakened from her sleep by one of his arrows Psyche brought the box to Aphrodite.