could only be demons torturing humans. The demons are obscenely grotesque as they hang people by their tongues over a boiling inferno of Hellfire. The demons look so incredibly realistic as they rise out of the magnificent and terrifying beast of undulating flames and eternal drifting black mist.
Suddenly out of the blue, I feel a magnetic pull deep in my core. It's pulling me toward the east wall for some unknown reason and I can't fight it no matter how hard I try. I walk over to the east wall as if in a trance.
Standing in front of it, staring into the flames, I feel myself unable to move, I'm rooted to the spot. The sensation of falling into a deep abyss overwhelms me. I narrowly focus my eyes on the undulating flames and the more I do, the more everything around me just falls away.
These particular undulating flames are vastly different from the others. It's hard to explain exactly how they're different. I know deep in my heart that these particular flames are the flickering eyes of Hell itself. They're holding me completely spellbound, refusing to release their demonic, hate filled hold on me.
That's when I hear a strange chilling and yet evocative voice reverberate in my head.
"So, you've been reborn once again my beautiful vixen. I'm now very anxious to see you again....one day....very soon. We have a great deal of unfinished business to tend to, you and I. You'll not escape me this time sweetheart. I promise you that."
"Jinny. Jinny! Are you ok? You're staring off into space again. Come on, let's get our drinks and find a place to sit!" Madi yells at me to make herself known over the noise, She pulls me out of the strange spell I'm in. My body begins shaking badly, as true terror overwhelms me and leaves my very soul cold as ice. Even my teeth are chattering as if I'm standing buck naked in the middle of Antarctica.
I don't know what to think or do at this moment, I just want to run home and hide. I just this chilling voice out of my head! I know it belongs to someone much more sinister than I'll ever be prepared to deal with! My extra senses are telling me that whoever it is, he's coming for me and won't stop until he gets me in his clutches.
Madi wraps her arm around me and steers us both to the blood red bar. Its surface is so shiny that I swear it's really wet blood. I'm too afraid already to touch it and find out for myself.
The bartenders are all beautiful and mesmerizing to the point where my extra senses or gifts, as my mother called them, are screaming at me to see past the glamour, to see the truth.
I close my eyes and focus on seeing through whatever glamour there maybe, praying I'm wrong for once. When I open my eyes again, I gasp loudly. Madi looks at me with confusion and worry in her eyes. All the color drains away from my face.
The bartenders, servers, and bouncers are the same as the grotesque demons straight from the biblical Hell depicted on the wall!
That can't be, there is no such thing as demons, not in real life! My mind screams in denial of what my eyes are seeing. I feel myself shaking so badly that I just want the vision to end as one bartender reaches out for me, worry on his face, and all I can do is jerk backward so forcefully, I fall on my rear end.
Sitting very un-lady like, I quickly close my eyes, forcing my extra sensory vision to recede and allow my normal vision to return for my own sanity.
When I open my eyes again, I see out of the corner of my eye, one of the bouncers heads for me then stops a few feet away. His head turns toward the dance floor and stares. Then, he stiffens right up and walks away as I get up on my own.
Well, that explains why they all look at us as if they want to devour us whole, as if, we're their next meal! I think fearfully, unable to really make sense of what I've just seen.
In one split second, my whole world and belief system has been thrown into utter and complete chaos.
I need the strongest damn drink they have and make that a double
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