The Three Furies

«Di sangue tinte» (Inf. IX 38), tearing at their own breasts with their nails, and screaming. In the game they stand one to each balcony above the gate of Dis, dark red instead of the grey of the souls, and they throw down the same iron shafts the gate devils use, recognisable without anyone saying so; only sparser, and out of step with one another, because there are three of them and three balconies at devil rhythm would let nobody climb.

They are demons like the devils, so the arrow does nothing to them. And while they are calling nothing touches them at all, not even the sacred weapon: they used to be vulnerable from the first instant, and anyone arriving with a few grains put them out inside the sixteen seconds of the call. A call that can be cut short is not a call; here it is not cut short, it is endured, and you answer what arrives.