“Through me you pass into the city of woe:
Through me you pass into eternal pain:
Through me among the people lost for aye.
Justice the founder of my fabric moved:
To rear me was the task of Power divine,
Supremest Wisdom, and primeval Love.
Before me things create were none, save things
Eternal, and eternal I endure.
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.”
-DanteAlighieri
I Died. I don’t really remember how. One moment I was alive, and the next, nothing. It wasn''t dark, at least not in the traditional sense. There wasn’t an absence of light. More like I couldn''t see the light that wasn''t there. Maybe this is what it is like to be blind.
Time is passing. I think.
I try to remember my life. I used to be alive. That is the only thing I can say for sure. It’s like a dream. The more I try to remember, the further away it goes.
I try to count to one million. I got lost around three hundred thousand.
I don’t have hands. It took me a while to figure it out. It should have been obvious, given that I can''t feel anything, but the revelation surprised me.
I think I’m losing my mind.
Something changed. I don’t know how much time has passed but, something is different. I can feel it in my bones.
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I have bones.
There is a light in the distance. It calls me.
I have been walking for a long time.
I can walk.
I see the outside. There are others like me. Millions. Billions. More than I can count. They are fighting hell itself. That is the only way I know to describe it. Monsters whose names demons dare not to utter. Creatures born out of the abyss.
I must fight them.
This is my purpose.
To delay oblivion.
Even if just for a second.
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Spirit of Sheol
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