before i knew it a pair of strong hands were hauling me into the darkness. it took my eyes several moments to adjust to the gloom around me. i was being taken downward, under the ground; i could feel a cool musty breeze as we headed below. the walls rapidly gave way to a rocky cave tunnel as i was carried by two lean but strong persons who said nothing on our descent. at last we came to a large cavern. there were several hooded individuals standing in a circle. they seemed to be waiting. when the circle opened, i saw the huge round symbol painted on the floor, powerful magical seals at special locations around its edge. i knew the symbol, knew of its purpose and the evil contained within it. i started struggling madly as i was carried towards a low altar in the centre, but i could not break free. i was placed carefully (strangely, i thought) upon the cool stone and secured tightly at ankles and wrists. the two who carried me joined the circle which closed around the symbol's edge. initially there was low chanting and swaying, but as time went on it became a fast high-pitched whine that thumped through my brain paralyzing me with fear and dread. strange images began to dance across my vision, i had trouble focusing, and odd sounds started twittering in the air around me. i may have screamed, i do not know, any sound was drowned out by the whine and alien noises. i could feel the swimming sensation of unconsciousness hurtling to the fore, and i would have passed out had it not been for the terror that began to form in front of me. a shape as black as pitch and several feet tall suddenly loomed over me. it's putrid breath stung my face as it leaned closer and vomited the blood of a thousand fallen angels over my face and body. a huge twisted talon tore my shirt from my torso then proceeded to gouge mystical runes into my chest, deep and searing, the pain unbearable. i was dying but still very much alive. it grabbed my head as a huge dripping proboscus came forth from its jaws. it crashed into my own mouth, snapping off several teeth as its width forced itself inside, at last tearing through my palate into my brain. my head lolled on the end of its horrendous trunk, sodomized by its horrific force, as the demon sucked my soul from the body which lay upon the altar. when the beast was done, it straightened and bellowed heavenward, then ripped my limp body from the altar, ankles and wrists snapping away like twigs, and though i had lost complete control of my body and mind, i was somehow still alive, witnessing my own death through the eyes of a monster. i have discovered there is no justice in the world. if there was i would be dead now, but i continue to live in eternal damnation, one among a thousand others who witness the same instinctual madness night after night, our souls a part of an unquenchable horror.