#Inktober Day 3 - Roasted / Flower

Roasted and Flower

It is said that in the hidden places of the spirit realms, there are paths that lead to pocket demi-planes that might be described as hells. A number of these demi-planes call out to lost and doomed spirits, like honey-traps offering beauty and fulfillment of desires, but trapping those foolish enough the enter.

One of the more notorious of these is the Flame Garden of Roses, filled with the most beautiful blossoms inspired by the dreams of horticulturalists in the physical realm. The flowers here attain shades that could never be cultivated in the waking world, and their petals are used to flavour the ambrosia consumed by the most discerning celestial entities. Only a few know the paths to reach the Flame Garden, fewer still know the secret rituals needed to escape it's eternal burning. Those who do manage to find the realm without knowing the escape rituals are doomed to spend millennia burning away to ashm eventually joining the pile which ageless elemental gardeners use to fertilise the roses for eternity.

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