his eyes shot wide open. his head throbbed at the momentary blindness.
but when he saw what lay in front of him, he wished he had never opened his eyes in the first place.
on the bare, red floor, the boy just sat cross-legged, eyes fixated on the thing that started to materialize seemingly out of the red stuff that covered the walls of the room he was in.
what was that stuff anyway?, the boy thought. blood? no, it couldn’t be.
“welcome,” was the first thing the thing said, stressing every single syllable with the upmost effort. the voice that came out of the thing seemed to cover every single pitch known to the boy’s human ears.
“welcome, to the city of heavenly sin.”
the boy could not take his eyes off the mouth of the thing that stood in front of him. it was the most vile and corrupted thing he had ever seen. the mouth was grotesquely enlarged, and the yellow-and-black stained teeth seemed to cover almost half of the full face.
and when the boy tried to avert his gaze, he ended up being locked in the entrancing gaze of the thing’s eyes. the feeling was indescribable. the boy felt horrified just looking at it, but at the same time, somewhere deep inside the boy, it was the most beautiful thing that he had ever seen.
oh, those eyes. the longer the boy looked, the sense of dread and trepidation the boy felt started to grow larger and larger, almost consuming the boy’s pounding heart. in those eyes he saw every single feeling of pain known to man. in those eyes the boy could see his whole life being re-enacted, one second at a time.
eventually the boy dug deep, and found the courage somewhere to say something.
“who… what are you?” the boy asked. the slight tremble in his voice betrayed his fearless facade.
the thing answered, almost bereft of emotion. “i am… an angel.”
“and what is your name?”
“satan.”