Preludes & Nocturnes

[Marburg]

My guide leads me along a high and narrow cliff face path, beside cramped prison cells built into the rock and supported by bone. The lacerated fingers of each prisoner stretching out between the barbed wire and broken glass that holds them in as we pass.

This goes on for miles.

Never trust a Demon. He has a hundred motives for anything he does...ninety-nine percent, at least, are malevolent.

"Etrigan...Why did you bring me this way?"

"Upon your right are souls, entombed, to pity. An ugly sight..." he began to answer, just as the answer itself begins to speak directly to me from her cell. Her name is Nada but time is short and her story is for another day.

"Kai'ckul! Dreamlord! I hoped one day you would come to me! free me, My Love! ...Please?

Her voice has horaced to the point of ruin. Her spirit has been broken and it has dimmed her soul...though, in spite of all that, she is still as beautiful to me as the day I met her.

"I greet you, Nada. It...it pains me to see you like this."

"Kai'ckul! Free me Lord!" She pleaded desperately up to him from behind the wire. "You ordered me confined here! Your forgiveness can free me! Please, I implore you!...Don't you love me?"

"It has been ten thousand years, Nada. Yes, I still love you...but I have not yet forgiven you."

I turn my back on her and continue on my way with Etrigan.

"...Now! Onward to the City! Hahahaahahaha!!" he cackled.

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