>>12497330oh, she's embarrassed by it the first time, trying to hide it with that stick of a finger. minaideyo, hazukashii, she said. I lifted her hands gently by the wrist. she resisted it. I looked her in the eye, slowly she let go. I braved myself, and put my face close to her abyss. The smell of its rotting inhabitants screaming straight into my nostrils, yet I continue. closer, closer. I am now swamped in this infernal smell. I opened my mouth, put out my tongue, and touched the darkness of the abyss. At that moment, hell and heaven unite. the voice of the holy virgin howls out of pleasure, and heavens sing of glory. And the son of man has tasted the forbidden fruit. so bitter and wretched in its smell. And so it is said that the roots of the tree of heaven reach all the way down to hell.