Preludes & Nocturnes

[Marburg]

"Etrigan, yes, Merlin's demon. I remember you." I say to him in greeting as he allows my entrance. "So you're a Rhymer now? You've risen in Hell's hierarchy, I see."

"Things change. This way...Things change...in Earth and Hell...To rise among the Fallen? Strange and true, but as things change, Lord, they transmute as well...and if I've changed, then what of you?"

"I have been...absent...for some time. But changed...? Perhaps."

'We walk for miles in silence. Away from the Desert of Broken Glass and into an area thick with misery. The trees are dead and they are self-loathing.'

"...All too much." one of them says as we pass it. "Sandra knew everything. And the papers...so I had to. Had to get out. Needed a break...just hurting so much...but I thought the hurting would stop...how can i just make it stop?"

'The Wood of Suicides has changed since my last visit. I remember it as a tiny grove...It is now a forest. Hell is changing.'

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