A Portrait Of Hell
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0 Item #: SCP-001-108
Object Class: Keter-potissimi
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-001-108 is uncontained. The fire surrounding SCP-001-108 has thus far proven extremely resilient to circumscription. Due to this, containment efforts are to primarily focus on reducing the spread of the flames.
As the threat posed by the anomaly to Site-01 is severe (and thus, by proxy, the Foundation as a whole), its containment is deemed an extremely high priority to the Overseer Council. Efforts to prevent the fire's spread and eventually contain SCP-001-108 are being headed by Site Director Takehiko Kanazawa.
Description: SCP-001-108 is the corpse of O5-3, hanging within its office at Site-01, engulfed by a perpetually burning fire. The fire has thus far spread across the entire office and a large section of the administrative wing of Site-01, and continuously incinerates all matter within an expanding radius around SCP-001-108.
The expansion of the fire is erratic and cannot be predicted. On average, it has expanded approximately four meters per day when undisturbed.
Maybe hell is a place on earth. Our actions cause it, after all; we are trapped within them, in cycles of karma or depravity, hoping for an exit we cannot attain.
I did not know my mother, but she used to paint. A wall in our home was a great fresco, one she had made, of a soft and green country. The brush flecked blue and spotted white on the wall, and the light shone through thin gauze curtains. I would lean up to touch it, feel the chips of paint and think of faces after faces, framed in golden stars.
My brother came home one day, out of his mind, and took a knife to it. I watched, horrified, as he slashed and slashed and scratched at it, screaming, letting it out – all he had taken, from the war, from death upon death. The light shone through still, illuminating every imperfection, magnifying them; on, and on, and on, the pattern destroyed.
—The Administrator
The fire that exudes from SCP-001-108.
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