Dual Send: Siegfried (Pilot)
Averna was not Hell, though most who arrived there believed it was. Hell punished what it condemned. Averna tested what it refused to abandon. Nor was it Heaven, Heaven did not ask questions of souls it already trusted.
It was a world shaped for the unresolved.
Those who entered Averna carried reputations heavier than their bodies. On Earth, their names had been curses, warnings whispered to frighten children and justify executions. Monsters. Tyrants. The irredeemable. History had agreed on that much.
God did not.
In their souls, He saw a contradiction no judgment could resolve, a light brighter than that of most saints, buried beneath a darkness deeper than even the fallen angels who had chosen rebellion over doubt. To destroy such souls would be wasteful. To absolve them would be dishonest. And so, He forged a final crucible: a universe whose laws bent not toward mercy or cruelty, but compatibility.
Thus, were born the twins, Amaranthine and Siegfried, cast into Averna not as prisoners, but as candidates.
This is Siegfried’s story, 1 of 2 sides in this series.
In Averna, injustice wore many faces, and kindness was nothing but pretense. He did not come to join this world; he came to correct it. In such a world, Siegfried would rise higher than any soul before him, striking down corruption and reshaping society with an iron, unwavering hand.
The question was never whether his world would bend to his will. Only whether his insistence on perfection would undo the very justice he sought to enforce.
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