Just to liven it up a bit, I’ll be adding demoness illustrations. They’re not Lisrian, she’s the lion demon in the initial image. Think of these as her friends in Hell. This one is by Yumelle at http://www.furaffinity.net/view/26709411/
The two continued on for some time, hand in hand yet walking somewhat closer to each other than they had before. But as they continued, he noticed something. He was hungry! For some reason he’d assumed that they wouldn’t eat here. Come to think of it, WHAT would they eat? Well, he’d been washed with water from somewhere. Presumably there must be some sort of food here if he was hungry.
“Um, Lisrian, I’m feeling a little hungry. It seems like a weird question but, do we eat here?”
“Oh!” she exclaimed. “I’m sorry X! I completely forgot! You’ve not eaten at all, have you? Here… follow me. We’ll have a little picnic. I’ve brought some food in my robe…”
She led him off to the left of the direction they’d been walking. Suddenly his feet were no longer on hard ground but instead were in something that felt like grass. That made him inordinately happy, and he realized that the heat he felt on his shoulders must have been sunlight.
“What is this place?” he asked as she guided him to a sitting position and he felt the rough bark of what must have been a tree at his back.
His companion paused before answering. “Just a place. I’m not really sure. But it looks nice and most realms in the afterlife are decent, and the locals usually stay away from demons like me. Here, take this.”
She handed him something that felt remarkably like a sandwich.
“What is it? Or shouldn’t I ask?”
She chuckled at that. “It’s the flayed skin of the damned of course! No silly, it’s a ham sandwich. Besides, it’s not like you have much of a choice, is it?”
“Where in Hell do you get a ham sandwich from?” he asked, but after sniffing it, decided it smelled pretty much like a ham sandwich!
“From a grocery store. Where else?”
“You have grocery stores in Hell?!”
“Well, they’re not exactly like what you’re used to I’m sure, but yeah. Basically.”
His mind reeled, thinking of all the questions that led to!
“I told you it wasn’t like what you expected, didn’t I?” Lisrian said, then she obviously began eating something too.
“Wait, do you have money?”
“Naa,” she said around a stuffed mouth. “It’s kinda a socialist system.”
“Hell. Yeah, that figures.”
“We don’t talk about it much, but really, God provides for us. I suppose he just wills it and we have all we need. The demons at the store could tell you more, if you ask nicely. They’re a grouchy lot. It doesn’t make for happy demons when their jobs depend on God, you know.”
She handed him a bowl with some sort of juice, explaining that her form didn’t readily permit drinking from a cup, and he accepted it gladly. It’s flavor was unfamiliar, but not bad at all. When she took it back, he heard her lapping from it and that made him smile.
“Hey!” she said, stopping her animalistic drinking. “You’re laughing at me aren’t you? Does my drinking amuse you?”
He gulped down the last bite. He had been hungry! “Sorry. It’s… I’m just imagining you… drinking.”
She growled a bit, but resumed anyway, muttering, “We can’t all be human you know.”
A bit later, she stood up and took his hand. “Okay. Enough lollygagging. Let’s get moving,” she said, helping him back to his feet. “We’ve delayed long enough. Another hour and we should be there. Now, like I was saying before our picnic, we all speak the same language here. You think of it as English, but it’s really not.”
“Is that why you seem to talk… I don’t know… like you’re from my time?”
“You got it. And you sound to me like you’ve been living here forever yourself to me. So there’ll be no issues with that…”
She continued on, taking occasional breaks in her explanations, but he soon noticed the temperature was rising and he interrupted her again.
“It’s getting warm, isn’t it?” he asked.
“Oh. Yeah. We’re getting close,” she said, then sighed. “Look, X. You’re going to be able to see me soon. I know, especially after sex, you think you know what I look like. You don’t. It might be better if I put my robe back on, at least for a little bit. You might need to get used to me first. Some newbies to Hell kinda freak after they see us.”
“Please don’t. I was into some pretty ‘imaginative’ art back in life. I really think I’ll be fine.”
“Suit yourself. But do me a favor. Don’t run away, okay? Or if you do, try and control yourself as soon as you can. I don’t want to have to chase you all across Hell. There are dangerous places, and not all the demons are exactly friendly.”
“What are they going to do, kill me?” he laughed as he nodded his agreement anyway.
“More likely cut that little weiner off. It’ll be back the next day, but It would hurt. A lot.”
“Speaking of which, do you have days? Do you sleep?”
“Of course! We eat, we sleep, we piss, we shit. X, it’s not all THAT different from life! Oh… and speaking of that, I need to take a piss. Do you mind? Just step this way.”
He obliged her, letting her go a little distance off while he waited. While he couldn’t hear any sounds that originated from the native realm he was in, he did hear her. At first he smiled when the sound came to his ears, but then he realized he had to go too.
“Lisrian? Um… got room for two wherever you are?”
“Jeeze, you could have told me first. Sure, just follow the sound of my voice. Warmer… warmer… There. Stop there. Now turn to your left. A little more… Perfect. Just dont step any farther in that direction. You’re good. Let ‘er rip!”
“You’re watching me, aren’t you?” he said, unable to let anything ‘rip’.
“Of course. And I’m not going anywhere. Get used to it, big boy. I’ll wait.”
In fact, she did have to wait for a bit until he got his mind right and imagined she wasn’t nearby, enough to be able to release.
“Wow, that’s sexy!” she said, her deep voice now sounding terribly near. “Sorry X, but yeah – I’m a little kinky.”
“Dammit Lisrian, no privacy here?”
She snorted, an odd sound. “Not a whit. Like I said, get used to it.”
He finished finally, and found himself instinctively trying to tuck himself into non-existent pants.
She snorted again, but didn’t say anything as she took his hand again and led him back to the path. He wondered a bit at just what he’d been pissing into, but decided it really didn’t matter much. He only hoped she was the only audience he’d had for that performance.
They continued on, and the temperature began warming even more. Not terribly uncomfortable, but certainly warmer than the other realms had been.
“Okay. Are you ready X? We’re almost there.”
“Ready as I can be I expect.”
“That’s good. But… don’t look at me just yet. Follow me now. We’re crossing the threshold into Hell now…”
And then his eyesight returned. What he saw in front of him really wasn’t so bad. It looked like a cave. He did see the flicker of flames on sconces along the stone tunnel he was looking down, but it was quite a wide space, sloping gently downward. The walls could have been that of any large cavern, and the floor was smooth and somewhat worn in the center, as if thousands of feet had passed that way beore. Millions, he supposed on reflection.
“Lisrian, is this the only entrance into Hell?” he asked as he turned to the demoness.
And then he saw her for the first time.
Somehow, even though he thought he was prepared, he wasn’t. He realized too late that, even though intellectually he had known her form must look something like what stood before him, the physical reality of her, standing so close beside him, almost did cause him to lose it. The short shriek that leapt unbidden from his mouth, though, he couldn’t control.
Her leonoid face tried to smile. What he saw instead were her sharp, carnivore teeth that looked like they would rip his throat out at any second. Generations of repressed instinct came flooding back to him the second his eyes saw her, his legs tensing of their own accord, preparing to run while he registered the demonic horns framing her face. But when she spoke, it was too much. He fainted dead away.
“Hi X.”
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