MHOS Part 15: Mapping the Hellaverse

We get settled in Peaches new home and she brings out some frozen cake that was sitting in the freezer and a couple of forks into the living room and sits down on the couch beside me. She tells me that in the basket she has a drawing that she made of Pentagram city. There was indeed 6 main roads, in the shape of a pentagram & Chaos Crescent is the circle around the outskirts of town, it meets up with every other road. Peaches was right, once I saw the main roads I would never get lost in Hell again. Then I notice the name of the section of hell I am in.

"Obsession?" I ask Peaches as I look up from the map. Her face flushes and says "Yeah, I didn't want to tell you where I lived because it's the home for obsessive crimes.. Stalkers, kidnappers, people who kill the object of their obsession. I didn't want you to think I was going to be obsessive over you or that you were going to be unsafe here. Sirens are vengeful, stalkers and kidnappers are cowards. I mean, you saw how quickly those two men left when you almost strangled one of them." I'm not sure why, but that made me chuckle, and I turned my attention back to the map.

"So is this all of Hell orrr..?" I ask. Peaches says "Oh no, this is just Pentagram City. It's the central city in the first ring of hell. This is where you figure out who you are. And when you do, you can move into a sector within central city or you can travel to the ring that best suits you each sector has transportation to their perspective rings. Oh! We should head to Pride in center town! It's where you can learn the most about Hell, we can do it in the morning, but for now it's nearing the end of the night and I have a favor to ask."

My eyes narrow as I wait for Peaches to continue. "Okay so I don't sleep, I mean. I fall asleep, but once I fall asleep here I am on a road hunting over there and would really like you to just hold me.. as I fall asleep.. because I hate falling asleep alone. I never did on earth. Not once and I really don't like sleeping alone."

I take the cake out of her hands and place it on the coffee table and pull her into my arms and say "Of course I can." as I stroke her hair. She looks up at me and crawls onto my lap and nuzzles her face into my neck and we just sit there staring at the cake, as I stroke her hair. As she's nuzzling I feel her lips pressing against my throat. She slowly slides her hand up my arm, up my neck and behind my ear to pull my face down to meet hers and she moves to kiss me.

"Peaches" I protest, and she cuts me off by kissing me again and says "I'm not tired yet" as she slides her arms around my neck. "Help me get there" she demands as she straddles my lap. Part of me hesitated, the part that made a deal, the part that has power over her. Then the part of her that was licking along my earlobe made me forget everything else & I turned right around and gave her everything she asked of me.

When we were done, she laid curled up under my arm snuggled in close and closed her eyes. And as I felt her doze off by my side, I saw her fading away into nothing and suddenly.. I am alone. She.. actually.. leaves.. hell.. every time she falls asleep.. Wild.

And now that I'm alone in her house I suddenly feel like I'm trespassing. I get up off the couch, put the cake away, grab the map put it in my messenger bag, and head back out to the tavern for a hunt before bed. Then I think I'll head home to Gary's place, the downside of living under water is the inability to smoke, a vice I refuse to give up from my time on earth.