Devil's Business
“Replacing it bit by bit with tinders and ash. What he’d taken to be the howling of the air was in fact screams, his own and others. Screams as the vast plain before them shifted and changed, the red sands shifting and forming faces, which stared at him with lidless eyes before vanishing under the next gust.
He tried to shut his eyes and shut out the grit, close his mouth and gulp down a breath, but his eyes and lips were pinned back, fine hooks through his flesh. His blood turned to crystal the... moment it hit the air, and all he could do was scream until he suffocated.
This was the first part of his time in Hell, the torture before the demon who’d pulled him into the Pit got down to the real business.
He was dead, and in Hell, and never going free.
“Jack.” Something poked him hard in his biceps. “I swear, you could sleep through a missile raid,” Pete muttered. The Fury sat at the foot of a driveway that snaked up a landscaped hill and ended at a small imitation castle.
“We here?”MoreLess
He tried to shut his eyes and shut out the grit, close his mouth and gulp down a breath, but his eyes and lips were pinned back, fine hooks through his flesh. His blood turned to crystal the... moment it hit the air, and all he could do was scream until he suffocated.
This was the first part of his time in Hell, the torture before the demon who’d pulled him into the Pit got down to the real business.
He was dead, and in Hell, and never going free.
“Jack.” Something poked him hard in his biceps. “I swear, you could sleep through a missile raid,” Pete muttered. The Fury sat at the foot of a driveway that snaked up a landscaped hill and ended at a small imitation castle.
“We here?”MoreLess
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