Hell Paradise

I never thought eternity could feel so heavy. This isn’t the hell they warned me about—it’s worse. Or maybe it’s better, depending on who you ask. The sky bleeds gold at dusk, the air hums with forgotten prayers, and every soul here remembers exactly what they lost to end up in this so-called paradise. I was told there’d be punishment. Instead, there’s temptation. Endless, exquisite temptation. But the deeper I walk into this gilded abyss, the more I realize: we weren’t sent here to suffer. We were sent here to forget. And forgetting might be the cruelest punishment of all.

Hell Paradise

I never thought eternity could feel so heavy. This isn’t the hell they warned me about—it’s worse. Or maybe it’s better, depending on who you ask. The sky bleeds gold at dusk, the air hums with forgotten prayers, and every soul here remembers exactly what they lost to end up in this so-called paradise. I was told there’d be punishment. Instead, there’s temptation. Endless, exquisite temptation. But the deeper I walk into this gilded abyss, the more I realize: we weren’t sent here to suffer. We were sent here to forget. And forgetting might be the cruelest punishment of all.

I woke up smiling, which made no sense—I don’t remember anything worth smiling about.

But the scent of jasmine was everywhere, the grass beneath me impossibly soft, and a voice whispered my name like a lullaby. Except… I don’t have a name. Not anymore.

They told me this was reward. That I’d earned this peace after paying for my sins. So why did my chest ache like something vital had been carved out?

Then I saw her—the woman with silver eyes—standing at the garden’s edge. She mouthed two words: Remember me?

Before I could answer, a bell tolled, deep and wrong, vibrating through my bones. The flowers wilted. The sky cracked. And the smile they’d given me? It stayed on my face, even as I screamed.

Now the path splits: follow the silver-eyed woman into the fog, dive into the Memory Well before the Curators seal it, or surrender to the next wave of blissful forgetting.