“I swear,” Miko said to the place as they walk down the temple’s hallway. His head was perked up to the ceiling to watch the cracks and the loneliness of the place. Where birds once were, and where the light of the sun would usually shine… There was nothing there anymore. “This place just gets weaker and weaker while we linger,” he said.
Alice had noticed as well. While they were asked to be patient, to procrastinate was another thing. No, she thought. Not procrastinate. But doubt. Kadlum wasn’t getting any better. He wasn’t going to be able to name a Datu until next year: the day after Dante’s death. And all the deaths of both sides: the Kadlum clan and the others, wasn’t helping anything. It was only making Kadlum worry even more. But he wasn’t going to give up, she thought. It almost seemed that he didn’t really have the right to. It was a responsibility, or something as such, to hold out to the end. Else, a god would never be god.
Alice tried to imagi
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