[He stares for what feels to him an eternity, but can't have been more than a couple seconds in reality.
But he doesn't take his back from the protection of the wall against it. Teeth and nails shredding his back, devouring him for centuries, millennia. Until there's no skin or muscle left to shred, only bone to slowly cut into and break. And then to start all over again. He doesn't want his back exposed to the devil again, he doesn't want to spend eternity in the beast's jaws.
Or does he? Heaven was a mistake. He shouldn't have left Cocytus. It's where he belongs.]
...D-do you know who I am, then?
[It occurs to him this Lucifer might not after all. If they come from different worlds and he looks different from the Lucifer Judas remembers, then maybe the Judas of that world is different too.]
wait I wanted to add more, don't judge me 2/2 now
But he doesn't take his back from the protection of the wall against it. Teeth and nails shredding his back, devouring him for centuries, millennia. Until there's no skin or muscle left to shred, only bone to slowly cut into and break. And then to start all over again. He doesn't want his back exposed to the devil again, he doesn't want to spend eternity in the beast's jaws.
Or does he? Heaven was a mistake. He shouldn't have left Cocytus. It's where he belongs.]
...D-do you know who I am, then?
[It occurs to him this Lucifer might not after all. If they come from different worlds and he looks different from the Lucifer Judas remembers, then maybe the Judas of that world is different too.]