The fiend woman's high-pitched scream could be heard beyond the sound of
the breaking mirrors and the river of glass and blood flowing deep from
within the withering hearts of the slaves that rowed the boat of the river
Styx. The desert's hideous song mingled with the mocking hymns of Hell and
the wordless cry of the queen of the Underworld. The deafening melody
stretched out from somewhere beyond the gates: "Hear the cry! The terrible
cry! Fall, ye heavens, shatter at the mercy of the demons! No holiness can
compare with the sorrowful and grating wails of the Inferno! Angels, bow
and surrender your robes of white; barter them for the only real armor!
Eidola, phantasms, revenants! Souls reaped from the dead and left to rot in
the catacombs of Hell!" The cry of the fiendish hellcat queen rattled the
core of hell, and when it stopped, the eerie silence was as awful as the
scream.
One by one the seraphim tumbled from above.
One by one the seraphim tumbled from above.
