Week 13, Title: The Dark Sacred Night

[swirlsofblue]

There’s someone starting today. They gather around and give the new worker soft but sombre smiles. This is not a celebration: this is a place of the desperate and the damned. The monstrosity continues to whirr loudly, spanning the entire wall: its blades wider than the breadth of any man’s shoulders.
They run about the place, quick but careful,

Comments

[bleodswean]

Utterly utterly lovely. I like the construct and the tone. I LOVE the vague sinisterness that paints the picture quite clearly!

[swirlsofblue]

Thank you, glad you liked the construct and tone :)

[d0gs]

The atmosphere in this piece is wonderful! I love this!

[swirlsofblue]

Thank you, glad you liked the atmosphere :).

[kittenboo]

Great world building, I can totally picture it.

[swirlsofblue]

Thank you :)

[tonithegreat]

I can picture it, too! And I’m left wistful; wishing there were a chance those fields weren’t Elysian. Poor guy.

[swirlsofblue]

Thank you :)

[halfshellvenus]

I love the ominousness at the beginning, and the idea of a Hell sweat-shop that contains a perpetual electrocution hazard (of course it does!).

But also that it may be more Purgatory than Hell, and that for those who hope and try to keep a pure heart, it is not the last stop in the Afterlife.

[swirlsofblue]

Thank you, glad you liked the ominousness, I was hoping that would work :).