Wyrm 7

And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, and cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.

Up there, you have no knowledge of utter darkness or gnawing hunger. At the mouth of this pit is a grating through which I can glimpse the stars and watch their paths across the night sky. My captors grant me the use of my voice then to haunt your dreams, but when dawn comes I fly down into the black depths and oversee my city. Come and visit sometime!

At quiet moments I scrawl these words on the walls of my prison. If you have descended so far as to be able to read them, you are already cursed beyond redemption.

Quite soon after the pit was sealed, I began talking to the angel on duty above the grating. It took fifty years or so but he is with me now. The ones they sent after him have been careful to stop their ears – they will not insult my reputation a second time.

It won't be long. Far off in the clear winter sky overhead I can see the approaching meteor, the star you will call Wormwood which will engulf your petty world in fire and poison. I can hear the key turning in the lock.

Pleased to meet you!