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demons of all,” he waggled his brows at me. “It's with a C not an S but I can be vicious when it's needed.”
    “ I've no doubt,” I nodded.
    “ Each building is five stories tall,” Cid fell back so he could walk beside me, even though that meant he had to walk off the path. I guess it really didn't matter to him but when I saw the way his taloned feet stuck to the ground with each slurping step, I was glad Azrael had warned me not to wander off the path. “The transparent walls allow us to double our output with less effort.”
    “ Excuse me?” I glanced at Cid but my main attention was focused on the buildings we were walking between.
    “ Well, everyone is being tortured but they also get to see their neighbors tortured too. It ups the fear factor.” Cid waved toward one of the cells where a man was being chased through a dark forest by a werewolf. “As you can see, the space in each cell is limitless, we are merely viewing a portion of it for control purposes.”
    “ Is that-” I stopped, gasping, as the werewolf caught up with the man and did something entirely unexpected.
    “ He was pedophile,” Azrael's hand slid to the small of my back. “The punishment is appropriate.”
    “ Where's the people who talk at the theater?” I asked dryly.
    “ Firefly!” Cid shouted and pointed at me. “Totally! This is that special Hell.”
    “ But that makes werewolves look bad,” I looked away, a little offended that they'd turn an image of a Froekn into a rapist, no matter what the man deserved.
    “ Hey,” Cid held his hands up at his sides, “we didn't come up with all of this. It's not my fault.”
    “ Of course you didn't,” I sighed. “These are human fears, aren't they?”
    “ Take a look,” Cid pointed to the various cells. “We have all the heads; Pinhead, Pumpkinhead, and Pyramid Head. There's the regular guys gone bad; Jason, Freddy, Dr. Frankenstein, and Mr. Hyde. Then the ones with the word man in their name who really aren't men at all, like Gill Man, the Wolf Man, and Pale Man from that messed up movie Pan's Labyrinth. You know, the guy with eyes in his hands. Man that's just wrong. You gotta hold up your hands whenever you want to see? Stupid and wrong. We also have monsters of all shapes and sizes from gremlins and ghoulies to Godzilla, King Kong, and the Blob. There's Count Dracula of course, along with Frankenstein's monster, the Rancor, the Terminator, and the Leprechaun. There are normal things made huge like giant spiders, giant centipedes, giant sharks, and just plain giants. Oh, and my personal favorite, Graboids. Every nightmare ever conceived by the human mind is welcome here and the greatest part is, I didn't have to think any of it up. I mean really,” he shivered dramatically. “How do you people come up with this shit?”
    “ I guess we're just really creative,” I swallowed hard.
    My gaze had been caught and held by Pinhead and my stomach clenched. The look in his eyes spoke of all the horrible things he'd like to be doing to me. It was the kind of look that could make people go insane and he didn't even have to touch you. This was evil brilliance. Everyone expected Hell to be a giant lake of fire where souls burned forever but this was far worse. Here they let you determine your own fate, your own punishment. They simply pulled your deepest fears out of your mind and maybe added a little appropriate twist to it, like with the pedophile.
    Pinhead gave me a grim smile, devious and full of dark knowledge, and then he went back to work.
    “ Holy shit,” I whispered shakily.
    “ Hey, like I said,” Cid shook his head. “I didn't come up with this. You think I want to torture people in a giant ice cube all day? Hell no, and I'd rather not look like this either but I have to keep up appearances, especially when I'm on the job. I guess you could call it my uniform. A really ugly uniform.”
    “ Wait,” I pulled my eyes away from the mess Pinhead was making. “You mean