"As you wish" the demon said, and plunged through his chest, carrying his soul with it.
They fell endlessly, past fiery pits, and walls of jagged iron, ever deeper into a pressure so crushing that even without a body he could sense that the world around him was being heated by the weight of it all.
Creatures swooped around them, their serrated wings cutting close as they plummeted onwards, until there was nothing but darkness and distant stars until at last they saw the end of near-infinite space, and awaiting them a writhing mass of teeth and tentacles which closed around him.
He jerked back to himself, startled to find himself in his body, the demon staring deeply into his eyes, awaiting a response.
"Well?"
The young man pondered silently for a moment, thinking deeply on his internal state.
"I think, maybe, maybe you might ha...hic...dammit."
"Ah well," the demon replied. "If that didn't do it, then let us try the beginning of time, and see if that works instead."
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