Satan's Paradiso

12: Dystopia

Trigger warning for physical restraint.

(Int. Satan's old home, day. POV. Of Anne's eyes flickering open. She sits up on a stone slab, just big enough for Satan to lay on. The room she is in is completely black, and falling apart. When dropping her feet on the ground, she hears a crunch, and upon moving her feet, it is revealed she had been standing on a pile of four crumpled wings, covered in soft, crowlike feathers. They are dusty, and covered in mold. Jumpscare of an angel. Anne screams. The being is a cream colored human caricature, and lacks detail, making it look as though it was sculpted out of clay. It has no mouth, and panicked eyes. Wheezy humming sounds gasp from seemingly nowhere on its body. As it makes those sounds, it points to the door. Anne follows its direction and steps outside, to a garden of white roses, in the center of which, sits a small, blond haired, blue eyed boy around the age of five on a wicker bench. The only black thing in sight is Satan's old home.)

Anne: Are you Oliver?

Oliver: (Blankly.) Yes, hello Anne.

Anne: I came here to apologize.

Oliver: For what?

Anne: (Laughing nervously,) I killed you, doesn't that mean anything?

Oliver: No, why would I care about that?

Anne: (Tensing.) May I sit down?

Oliver: Yes.

(Anne sits next to him on the bench, she looks uneasy.)

Anne: Are you being reincarnated soon?

Oliver: Yes. I do not want to.

Anne: Why ever not? Imagine all the wonderful things you might do in your next life.

Oliver: The world is flawed, there is suffering, God won't make it perfect.

Anne: Why's that?

Oliver: Because we must not let the Earth blind us from going to Heaven.

Anne: (Long pause.) I expected you to be an infant, I hope you know.

Oliver: God made me grow, it is important to learn God's views if we didn't learn them in life.

Anne: Do you even remember life on Earth?

Oliver: No.

Anne: I'm sorry to hear that, it is really beautiful.

Oliver: (Short pause.) How?

Anne: (Surprised.) Well, it was-

(The angel suddenly grabs her, and takes off flying. Anne attempts to get away, but the angel has a strong grip. Soon, it drops her into a lake, where she struggles to keep afloat, but repeatedly fails, eventually, she just gives up, and allows herself to sink to the bottom, where her body fades away.)