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Chapter 60

Penulis: Shana Allen
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UNKNOWN.

Silence, the precious gift that it was, had almost been forgotten entirely. It was practically non-existent. This was where souls screamed out to torture’s Greatest Hits. Nothing ever changed here. Not really. It was the same century after century. At least that was what I’d thought.

My gaze was glued to the little river of fire that never extinguished. The little never-ending hiss was almost cathartic. Sitting on the bank, doing the same thing that I did yesterday, should’ve felt repetitive. But something was different.

No, not something.

It was me that was different.

There were two kinds of demons, though most mortals couldn’t tell the difference. The first was the traditional sort that they would expect, the ones that most stories got right. Souls that weren’t accepted into the realm of their creator and were cast into the Underworld. They screamed, they fought, they begged until they broke down into something unrecognizable. If Hades deemed that they’d suffered enough, t
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We'll have to see if Osric will be redeemed or not. <3

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