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=Traitors to Guests=
 * Circle 9 Part 3**

Deeper within the frozen lake Cocytus there were those who were traitors to their guests. This is the third group of sinners trapped within the frozen lake. The sinners frozen here cannot move and are frozen all the way to their heads; they cannot move. Their [|tears freeze] on their face and the ice forces their eyes shut, keeping them from even having the release of their sadness. With their eyes frozen in their sockets, the damned are denied the consoling release of cries. Friar Alberigo and Branca D'Oria, two umbri confined in this region of Hell, realize Ptolomea's terrible truth: the guilty fall to madness before their life ends, yet their bodies remain on Earth, possessed by demons. He talks to Count Ugolino and Archbishop Ruggieri. Their darkest hour came when their plotting turned treacherous, and Ruggieri betrayed Ugolino and his four children to starve and die in cold confinement. Count Ugolino's last living moments were stained by the haunting words of "Father, why don't you help me." There, his eldest, Gaddo, cried and crumbled on the prison floor.