46 The Ballad of Heidi: One Rakshasa who Remains Pure!

In all the Shadowlands, there is perhaps no place more feared than the [Pit of Hell].

People saw it as a massive, bottomless hole in the ground: a literal entrance to Hell, from which local legend states Rakshasa emerge, at night, to drag men and cow-men to their dooms.

In reality, the Pit was an entrance to an intricate system of tunnels that spread for miles underground, connecting with innumerable smaller caverns.

It was not a literal Hell, by any means, but indeed a place called home by the Rakshasa, who had remained there undisturbed for many centuries.