The Place of Pain

There is a place a few steps away from the reality we live in. Not visible to the eye, but always known and feared, this place has been described by various civilizations in many variations. All very distant from each other, true, yet all these descriptions shared a great theme: pain. This is the place of expiation, repentance, suffering, repulsion, solitude.
Here time has no power over man, here life has nothing to offer but suffering.