Chapter 12
And I saw an angel come down from heaven,
Having the key of the bottomless pit,
And a great chain in his hand.
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Revelations 20:1
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Gehenna: Earth AD 1992
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It was a typical day in hell…
Azrael flung back the hated cloak as soon as he finished materializing. Two Sata’an-human soldiers nodded greeting as he stepped towards the enormous carved doors. Someone had spray painted the words ‘abandon all hope, ye who enter here’ across the lintel in garish, red paint. It was a fitting epitaph for those forced to do the dirty work of keeping the worst of the worst interred here. Azrael’s passing was silent, his corporeal shell nothing but an illusion, but the guards who escorted him echoed in the enormous, empty hallway. Azrael paused before the second set of doors to enter the
