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Author: Guede Mazaka
Rating: G
Pairing: Gen.
Feedback: Yes, please.
Disclaimer: Not mine.
Summary: Musings outside the window.
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And what, exactly, is supposed to be on the other side of the gate? Hell? Fire and brimstone, demons cavorting over Dante’s worst wet dreams?
Pardon the laugh. It’s just so…predictable to think so. Centuries of work by fervent, feverish monks to dress up and distance the dark sides of human nature to a world below, as if this one was so much better.
No, the man leans against the bar, cigarette tilted between his fingers, and leafs through the pages of his book. He smiles at a line.
He looks up, and that is hell staring at you. Cheerfully.
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