[ WP ] Make up and describe an afterlife .

You could get used to anything, the man realised long ago, except boredom. After years, decades, centuries you could get used to anything. The smell of sweat and rot and despair, refined to a edge. The aches that had long since become as much a part of you as your limbs. The silence than smothered them all like a pillow pressed firmly against the face. The dust that coated everything, got in everywhere, that drifted down the smooth mountains the path wound along side. The manacles that shifted in unison during the rare times you got to shuffle forwards a step. You could even get used to the hopeless view, of the path winding around the endless mountains, the countless naked figures chained together stretching on ahead of you till they were as small as specks, on till they were barely indistinguishable from the dull yellow light that made up the sky. There was no horizon here. 
 
 But you were alone with your thoughts in the queue for a time that stretched and stretched till that part of yourself that had defined you, the part with colour and warmth and *emotion*, was nothing but a pinprick. There had been conversation at first he could of remembered, if he tried, and confusion, and lots of shouting and weeping. There had been no explanation, just the awareness that they had died, and were now here at the end of a queue, shackled together looking towards an endless line that shuffled forwards agonizingly slowly to an unknown destination. Each half step keeping just enough hope for the end alive for it to accentuate the torture. But the desire to talk petered out before even their clothes had weathered away. There was only so much you could say to the same people. He'd remembered that this was a punishment of some kind. He dimly recalled not being a particularly good person, not that that mattered any more. But that had been long ago. And the monotony had beaten at their skulls till it was all that was there, and hollow eyes stared out of hollow heads. 
 
 [ I have a second part I want to add, but I'll have to do that later ]
