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The Temple of Hera Eats My Fiancés Chapter 7
"Stay with me," Orion said. He grabbed my wrist and pushed open the heavy wooden door.A thunderstorm raged outside. It covered the sound of our escape.Orion had played the madman for a decade.He knew every blind spot in the patrols.We pressed ourselves against the cold stone walls. We dodged the beams of the watcher-crystals.He bent a rusty iron gate open with his bare hands.Thorns scraped my face. I didn't feel it.We jumped into the muddy moat and swam for our lives.Somehow, we made it. We escaped the living tomb.Two bodies, covered in mud. We collapsed into an abandoned tavern on the border.A cold wind blew through the broken windows.Orion’s hands trembled. He activated the memory stone.Light flared across the dark wall.The truth was laid bare.There was my father. High Priest Kael. He was stepping over bodies as he packed bleeding 'Vice Crystals' into crates. The other priests were laughing like ghouls.The final scene was clear. Kael was using black magic. He was graft
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I pulled the silver dagger from my boot.I pointed the cold tip right at my heart.Bile rose in my throat. The sickening, sticky feeling from the vision... it felt like it was still on my skin.I just wanted to end this filthy existence.A sudden thud echoed in the sanctuary.Kael and Lila were on their knees in front of me. Both of them."Elara, please, put the dagger down!" Lila sobbed. Her hands clutched my dress.Kael bowed his proud head. His eyes were red."Go to the Lethe Monastery. Get treatment," he choked out. His voice was filled with a father's desperate hope. "Your family will never give up on you."Seeing them so humbled, my fingers went slack.The dagger clattered to the floor.An endless wave of guilt drowned me.I nodded. I agreed to go.The Lethe Monastery was a living tomb.The halls were filled with mind-wiped prisoners.Every day, the wardens forced a dark green, mind-numbing potion down our throats.My mind grew duller each day.I became lifeless. I forgot the sea
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No miracle came. Of course not.The moment the Investigator stepped out of the forbidden sanctuary, the righteousness on his face was gone.He looked at me like I was a pile of rotting filth."Drop the inquiry," he said. I reached for him. He kicked my hand away. "Drag this irredeemable degenerate away. Don't let her filth touch the laws of the Capital."I knew then. I was utterly abandoned.As soon as my wounds healed, I started to act.I pretended to be mad.I had to get out of this city-state. It was my only way to survive.In two weeks, I used wild magic to burn the altar curtains. I shattered the defensive wards of a dozen acolytes.I set fires in the city at night. I ran through the streets. Screaming.The clergy couldn't take it anymore. They signed a petition. They forced Kael to send me away.To the Lethe Monastery. A place for insane heretics.Kael agreed.The transport carriage sped through the night.I spit out the iron shard I had hidden under my tongue. It had been tearin
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"No! That's not me!" I screamed.I scrubbed at my eyes. Hard.The memory crystal flickered in the dark, forbidden sanctuary.The images were vile. Profane.A wave of nausea choked me.I collapsed on the cold stone. My stomach churned. I threw up. Violently.Nothing came out but acid and streaks of blood.The nightmare of the last ten years finally had an answer.No wonder every fiancé wanted to kill me.No wonder my family looked at me like I crawled out of Tartarus.I was a monster.Kael’s staff crackled with deadly purple lightning. Grandfather conjured a gale-blade.This time, I didn't crawl away. I didn’t even try.The spells hit me. One after another.The flesh on my back split open. The air filled with the smell of burnt skin and blood.I was numb to the pain.I closed my eyes. I let them beat me into a pulp.I didn't deserve to live in the light.My hands trembled. I pushed myself up. I sat."I'll end it myself," I heard my own voice say. It sounded hollow. Dead. "I won't stain
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“Stop wasting the capital’s resources. You’re not worth it!”Celia’s words fell.The investigator glanced at me.“Be glad the Royal Law stays my hand,” he said, his voice lethal. “Don’t dirty our ears with your lies again.”The portal closed.They were gone.Kael walked over to me.He glanced at my broken right leg.He raised his hand.An invisible force seized the back of my neck and lifted me into the air.He threw me into the manor’s abandoned dungeon.The heavy iron door slammed shut. Darkness swallowed me.A horrifying chewing sound came from the corner.The ghouls. They kept ghouls down here.For three days, I lay in the damp rot.The ghouls’ sharp claws tore at my arms.I beat them back with broken stones from the floor.To survive, I had to eat the scraps of rotten meat they left behind.Ghoul rot seeped into my blood.My skin festered, weeping yellow-green pus.The fever blurred the line between reality and nightmare.I wasn't the daughter of a High Priest anymore. I was a mon
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Grandmother’s flames swallowed my vision.I don’t know how long the magic burned me. I just know I lost consciousness.When I woke up, everything was silent.I was lying on the stone steps outside the temple.A piercing pain shot through my scalp.Two carrion birds were pecking at the raw flesh of my forehead.I swatted them away with my good left arm.I dragged my broken body up and escaped to the manor through a hidden back alley.I couldn’t let the followers see me.Seven years ago, when my third fiancé tried to kill me, I reported it to the city’s inquisitor.But when he arrived, the entire city testified for my father. They said I was lying.“They have three children. The other two are so pious and kind. Why would he only abuse her?”“Inquisitor, that child has been a liar since she was young. She even steals holy relics. You can’t trust a word she says.”I knew they were only siding with him because he was the High Priest.But there was nothing I could do.After that, Kael threw
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