I was utterly exhausted yet vibrating with unbridled power that now surged through me. I wasn't sure how Geien had done it, but he had, and I would be eternally grateful for it.

After Pelleas left, I followed my girls back to the temple and we set about cleaning the mess that the guards had made. The door hung from its hinges and the furniture lay strewn about; some of it broken and in pieces.

A few of the priestesses had minor injuries that needed tending to. One ...