Heaven and Hell

The world was ablaze. 

The darkness of the night was vanquished, chased away by an immaculate white abyss of incandescent light. The stone rubble burned… the waters of the vast lake burned, too. Fine particles of superheated dust permeated the air, turning the crumbling ruins into an inescapable furnace. 

The air itself burned; the sky was suffused with immolating light, turning everything below its merciless expanse into cinders and ash. 

The boundless ocean of flames roared, its roars fusing and melting together to speak a litany of words…

Destruction. Ruination. Annihilation.

At the same time, the world was frigid and frozen, devoid of all warmth.