The Goddess Vessel
"The Goddess sees your corruption. She will not grant you what you seek."
"The Goddess abandoned this world long ago, old man," the leader retorted. "All that remains is power. And we will have it."
The leader made a sharp, slashing gesture with one hand.
The world erupted into chaos.
The cultists moved as one, swarming across the ford with an unnatural, silent grace. They didn't run; they flowed, like ink spilled in water. Adrien met them at the river's edge. He was a whirlwind of controlled fury, moving with a lethal precision I'd only ever seen in training. He disarmed the first cultist with a brutal twist of his arm, the snap of bone lost in the commotion, and used the man's own body to
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