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Despite the uncertainty of war, most mornings tend to feel like a repeat of the last. Edwin still does not believe in God, but he is starting to come around to the idea of purgatory.
OR: Charles Rowland is loyal and brave, a consummate soldier, and Edwin will do anything to keep him alive.
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13 Nov 2025
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This is one of the best pieces of fiction I have ever read and I am not joking, exaggerating, nor speaking from a place of limited experience.
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Edwin knows nobody will come for him.
It’s maybe the worst part of being down here again. Hell had been an unending torment for seventy years, and then he’d been free, and now he’s here again, and he knows somewhere deeper than logic that he doesn’t have the strength to pull himself out a second time. And nobody will come for him.
He whispers it to himself, huddled into the corner, arms wrapped around his legs. He speaks for the doubtful comfort of hearing his own voice, in between the moments where his personal torturer gives chase, and he is forced to run even though he knows he’ll never get away. Nobody’s coming for you. He’s not coming for you. You’re alone. You’re as alone down here as you were back on Earth. You have nobody to blame but yourself. You. Are. Alone.
He’s never going to see Charles again.
Bookmarked by MycroftRH
18 Aug 2025