Wednesday, October 12, 2016

The First Five Circles

Readers I am so sorry that I haven't posted in a while!  I've been so busy with Dante and keeping him safe that I have barely had a moment to myself.  Going through the circles, as Dante calls them has been very eventful!  Dante has already seen many different types of punishments the souls are having to endure.  In the first circle, Dante saw the virtuous pagans.  While in the first circle, I was welcomed back to my place in Hell.  To make it better, the greatest Poets of all time appeared.  It was so great to see them... On the way to the second circle, Dante saw the minos.  After seeing them, the judge in charge of placing the souls tried to get us to turn around ad leave but I ended up having a little talk with him that made him shut his mouth.  Once we got past him I showed the souls of carnal to Dante and pointed out many of them to Dante that I thought he would either know or know of.  There, Dante saw Paolo and Francesca, who I don't know too well, and began talking to them about their history.  After learning what happened to them I guess Dante was overcome with emotion or something because he fainted again.  The third circle was my least favorite to pass because of the smell, the whole place smelled like trash you just couldn't get away from.  Something interesting did happen in that circle with Dante.  One of the glutton souls recognized Dante and asked him about their hometown.  Apparently this soul, Ciacco said part of a prophecy but I wasn't listening well enough to hear what he said.  I only can hope that Dante didn't hear it as well.  In circle four and five I got to prove my self to be more powerful than the rages of Hell's monsters.  That was a really cool moment for me because I got to show off a bit for Dante.  Now who is the coolest guide?  While going through the fourth circle, I got to explain the function of Dame Fortune to Dante which was nice.  I always do enjoy explaining that to people.  In the fifth circle we came across the Marsh of Styx where there was slime everywhere.  I think Dante found this to be a bit on the gross side if I'm being honest here.  At the Styx we came across Phlegyas, who, for those of you who dont know, is the boatman of the Styx.  When we showed up he must have thought that we were souls that needed placing because he came racing towards us.  Once he found out that we weren't in need of placing, he started to wish us torment, well mainly Dante... To make things worse when we tried to go past him but he wouldn't let us.  That made me very angry so I ended up going off on him and with the power of my word we got passage.  Now one thing that I did NOT enjoy was when the Rebellious Angels appeared.  I didn't like it because Dante saw that I was powerless to them.  It was very embarrassing.  Because I am powerless to them, I said a quick prayer to try and get help.  So now were just waiting for a Heavenly Messenger to arrive.   

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