I've had to start to think about the geography of hell. Its been imagined thousands of times, but for my purposes I like the spiral structure. Dante talked about layers, like an upturned cake. Milton favored the immeasurable pit. My Hell, once the Lion's Gate is passed, is followed by the spiral stairway that snakes down into the abyss. After that the dark plain stretches out until the road down is reached in the very center.

As the road down is followed it gets darker and hotter, the demons meaner, the sins worse. At very bottom is the city of Bedlam, or Dis. Thats where we're going now.

These are some sketches for this part of the book. The city looks kind of like a cake in these drawings. The "OPEN 24HOURS" may stay.