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Shelly opened several of the doors only to find empty rooms. “Well, that’s disappointing.”
“What were you expecting to find?” Ra asked.
She shrugged. “Burning cities, lakes of fire… You know, the usual hell stuff.”
She heard him chuckle from behind her. “You know what ‘the usual hell stuff’ is?”
“The rumors have to come from somewhere. Everyone knows hell is hot and full of lakes of fire. No one has ever said that hell was an ice world … or an enchanted forest.”
“That’s true,” Ra admitted.
“How’d you get to the underworld anyway?” she asked as she headed back to the room they’d first entered. She walked back over to the couch and sat down. It didn’t look like there were going to be any cool discoveries or revelations.
“The River Styx.”
“That’s real?” Shelly asked, her curiosity
