Nathanael bracing himself against the floor in which he is lying on looks around and cant believe his eyes if he didn't care enough for his life to be afraid of death then surely he would be in fear for his soul that he now realizes he possess. The Stranger reaches down and grabs Nathanael by the back of the neck and forcibly lifts him to his feet.
Stranger: I think you'll find the view more pleasant from this angle.(smiling).
isnt it beautiful, my kingdom?
Nathanael looking ahead sees the ebony rivers stretching across the horizon, the sky tinted red in the distance volcanoes spewing ash and smoke blanketing the landscape with white ash, lava also flowing through the landscape. The heat almost stifling in the distance structures and what appears to be ppl in the distance.
Nathanael: to each their own, i always say.
beauty in the eye of the beholder and all that..
Stranger: See, that's why always liked you.
always trying to play both sides never one or the other.
one could say indifference is a noble quality.
wouldnt you say?
Nathanael: whatever you say,. so i guess.
this is the part where you make a deal with me or something or torture me right?
hate to tell you Demon, Angel or not. it aint gonna be easy, i'll fight you tooth and nails.
Stranger: ahaha.. i thought you didnt believe?
that it was all in your mind. maybe you're still dying and this is just your final thoughts.
the last remaining synapses firing away in that wet gray brain inside that white skull of yours.
The stranger puts his arm around Nathanael's shoulder as they walk toward a stone Temple and Pyramids on each side which rose out of the ground as it rumbled and shook the ground. A large roll of Grotesque statues appearing in front of the entrance on each side depicting everything from mutilated bodies, skulls, corpses piled over one another and one being more interesting then the rest a zombie like figure ribs exposed and the spleen hanging out as it's organs pulsate as if it were alive.
Stranger: Do you know why, you're here?
Nathanael: i take it the same reason you are, a series of random occurrences of chance at the beginning of time.
Or i am just slowly dying.
Stranger: yes, we are all dying slowly..
slowly marching from moment to moment to the inevitable darkness of oblivion.
But, that is just life and death and it is utterly boring.
Sometimes you need something to pass the time to entertain oneself even more true when one happens to be immortal.
Nathanael: have you tried suicide, why don't you try it?
Stranger: oh how i tried and wish it were that symbol you cant kill an abstract.
It seems we're all trapped by some perverse cosmic force.
We all have our coping mechanisms, you have your drinking, drugs and i have you... (red shimmer reflects from his black eyes)
i hate you, i have always hated you, it's why you're here.
Its b/c i made it so, i trapped you in an endless cycle Death and Rebirth.
Death is my bane and Life is your misery.
Do you remember, Do you remember me now?!
Nathanael watching The Stranger growing incensed as his face begins to morph with his rage taking an almost animal like appearance small black blotches appearing around the side of the stranger's face and neck...
Nathanael: No, but real or not i aint about to stand here and do whatever it is you have in mind.
Nathanael instinctively reacts as he swings with his right arm still covered with his shirt punching the Stranger in the face. The Stranger slightly turns his head to the side as he reacts grabbing Nathanael by the throat lifting him off his feat as Nathanael struggles to break his grip. Nathanael looking down at the stranger as it bears its large animal fangs and hisses at Nathanael.. Nathanael tells himself this isnt real, he isnt really here.
The Stranger: do you know why you drink and due drugs?
why you cant feel anything for anyone?
go on those long spirit walks?
b/c a long time ago i tricked you into drinking a special drink and do you know what you did in your drunken stupor?
Do you or are you too ashamed to remember?
Dont worry i'll jog your memory for you.
The Stranger holding out his hand as a gold cup materializes into his hand out of smoke and vapor from the underworld filled with a black liquid as he readies it to poor it into Nathanael's mouth..
The Stranger: you'll remember and beg for forgiveness no one will hear you but me..
you're purity stolen having lost your grace to sin.
Fallen and degraded now all you can do is hide and repeat the same cycle in your mortal host.
Open your mouth!
Nathanael turning away as the ebony liquid splashes on his face and chin trying not to taste the Liquid as it touches his lips causing him to have quick flashes of another life another person a flicker to quick to get a clear image and context.. Desperate Nathanael raises his legs wrapping them on the strangers arm as he twist hoping to flip the Stranger to the ground. The Stranger simply laughs at the attempt and weak human strength and confidently pulls him closer to him to mock him. Nathanael with his snake bitten armed wrapped in his wife beater stretches toward the Stranger's face and digs his finger deep into the socket forcing the stranger to scream in pain.
The Stranger: Arrghh!! it burns! how?! (ebony blood dripping from it's eyes).
The Stranger angry throws away the cup and grips Nathanael's arm ripping away the wife beater and revealing Nathanael's arm. Both shocked at what they see a snake scaled arm the pain the swelling was a partial metamorphosis furthered force by the struggle his fingers being clawed and coated in some poison as a rattlesnake design. The Stranger quickly releases him in shock and fear..
Nathanael begins to run not knowing where to go and disgusted at his own scale covered arm as he runs he stares at it and finds something oddly familiar as flashes of distant memories hit the surfaces of his mind distracting him as he is hit with mild seizures. The Stranger stares at Nathanael running and smiles shouting to him..
The Stranger: Run! there is nowhere to go!
This is my world! i'm everywhere!
We can have one more game, a Hunt!
it'll be fun!
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