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“Is this really necessary?”

“The silence is not scary anymore! You need to practice!” An exasperated sigh heaves its way from your chest. Weeks had already been spent begging Secondo to consider playing a more active role in the haunted house; to trade in his traditional silent scare tactics in favor of a more active approach. There was no time for him to chicken out now.

“Need I remind you, most of the Siblings already find me quite terrifying. I could stand stock still, staring, and they would turn tail and run. Which is what I do best.” His objections were quickly dismissed with a wave of your hand followed by a gentle push on his shoulders to lead him back to sitting in front of the mirrored vanity so you could adjust his make up once more.

“You are not terrifying, amore mío. But you do stare. A lot.” You reminded him with a playful squeeze of the apple of his cheek which only earned a groan underneath his breath. Your lips pursed together as you stared down at him in search of what aspect was still amiss from his costume make up. Already you had been pretty proud of what you had applied to his face. Larger faux canines affixed to his own, dribbling over his chin with fake blood, along with a stitching affect crossing over his face, opening over the top left side of his skull to expose spiraling sections of brain matter you had painted on painstakingly over the course of two hours.

For pride and avarice and envy are the three fierce sparks that set all hearts ablaze. : I am the one who preys on weak / I offer everything they seek / And I am the one who comes richly endowed / Harvesting crops of fields that others have plowed

Hope not ever to see Heaven. I have come to lead you to the other shore; into eternal darkness; into fire and into ice. : Oh, Satan, devour us all / Hear our desperate call / Per Aspera Ad Inferi

Through me is the way to the city of woe. Through me is the way to sorrow eternal. Through me is the way to the lost below. Justice moved my architect supernal. I was constructed by divine power, supreme wisdom, and love primordial. Before me no created things were. Save those eternal, and eternal I abide. Abandon all hope, you who enter. : He will tremble the nations / Kingdoms to fall one by one / Victim to fall for temptations / A daughter to fall for a son / The ancient serpent deceiver / To masses standing in awe / He will ascend to the heavens/ Above the stars of God

Soon you will be where your own eyes will see the source and cause and give you their own answer to the mystery. : Into the eyes of fire, into the gaze ablaze / Into the burning light of Satan's rays / Into the source of wisdom, beyond the Bible lies / Into the endless depth of Satan's eyes