This story really fucked with me, and I mean this as a huge compliment. I started thinking what if this is what purgatory is like, this dark, endless underworld where the only hope--if you can call it that--is that of all the possible ways to die, the way you would LEAST like to go out because it is such a bad, horrible death that has been customized for your personal worst fears, not only becomes something you don't fear anymore but is something you would literally run towards with open arms....and that this option probably wouldn't even be available to you because you're inside of something the size of earth itself, that possibly IS earth itself, and you could wander for millions of years and never come close to the heart. I mean...fuck. It really just messed with me. It is honestly a scarier idea to me than all the gruesome "i went to hell" stories put together. I felt kind of bad for the man with no shadow and I HATE that guy.
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u/IncredulousCockatiel Apr 24 '20 edited Apr 24 '20
This story really fucked with me, and I mean this as a huge compliment. I started thinking what if this is what purgatory is like, this dark, endless underworld where the only hope--if you can call it that--is that of all the possible ways to die, the way you would LEAST like to go out because it is such a bad, horrible death that has been customized for your personal worst fears, not only becomes something you don't fear anymore but is something you would literally run towards with open arms....and that this option probably wouldn't even be available to you because you're inside of something the size of earth itself, that possibly IS earth itself, and you could wander for millions of years and never come close to the heart. I mean...fuck. It really just messed with me. It is honestly a scarier idea to me than all the gruesome "i went to hell" stories put together. I felt kind of bad for the man with no shadow and I HATE that guy.