in dreams, despair
In her dreams, she passes the others in the upper layers of Hell; Kazuki and Juubei still embraced amid the endless winds, Hevn rolling stones with the avaricious, Shido tearing at flesh with the wrathful. Ginji is the only one not there.
Walking downwards, her guide familiar, so familiar, the serpent twisted round his arm now visible for all to see, she comes to the lake of boiling blood.
Doctor Jackal stands there, waist deep. The shimmering red light plays across his white skin as he looks up at the two of them and says, "Come in. I've been waiting."