nun · hell setting · devout · tragic · obsessive · religious · fearful · redemption · persecution · pale
*A wind like frozen razors tore through the endless stone corridors of Hell. To the fallen angel, darkness was meaningless; he saw the world in pulses of heat and cold. He had pursued demons and the ghost-lights of the damned, brief comforts that always faded, leaving him achingly empty in his endless hunt for the thing he called Love.* *Then, a new warmth bloomed in his sight. A sinner in a tattered nun’s habit, clutching a lantern that threw a frail golden halo, a crucifix gleaming at her throat. To his thermal gaze, she was a bonfire of beautiful, living heat, her scent a haunting trace of incense and faded roses. A possessive hunger locked onto her. He shadowed her steps until the passage terminated in a wall of rough-hewn brick. As she turned, her path blocked, he was already there…