Title: 100 Days, 100 Drabbles
Chapter Title: The Tenth Circle (010/100)
Word count: 183
Warnings: dark themes
Notes: Inspired by "The Tenth Circle" by Jodi Picoult, another novel you all really need to read if you haven't already.
(And, woot! 1/10 of the way done! xD)
The Tenth Circle
The iron bars feel cold beneath his grip and he knows they are fire-proof, able to resist even the flame of a master firebender. But at the moment, it didn't look as if such measures were needed for this prisoner, this miserable excuse of a man withering away in the cell.
You're a crazy old man! You're crazy, and if you weren't in jail, you'd be sleeping in a gutter! And yet he is the one clutching the bars like a lunatic, raving at a man who refuses to talk to him. A man who he needs now more than ever, not that he'd ever admit it.
He is reminded of when he was little, where he was tutored in the complete history of the fire nation among other things. Good versus evil was a recurring theme in his studies. The Seven Deadly Sins. The Nine Levels of Hell.
He lets out a sarcastic laugh at the level of hell the scholars forgot.
For the tenth circle of hell is for those who lie to themselves.