Void Stranger managed to subtly subvert my expectations so many times in the first 5 minutes that I had to stop and write this 2,400 word blog about it before continuing...
i wasn't able to leave a comment on your blog, so i'll waste space here.
when i was offered the fruit, the more immediate parallel struck me not as the forbidden fruit in eden, but the pomegranate in hades, whereby eating of it, persephone was disallowed to leave the underworld. they figured out a loophole for her but still, the "you can roam the void but you can't leave" comment from the imp reminded me most immediately of that