Eidolon Ave: The Second Feast
“And I know the fall from grace that follows once you surrender, relent, once he invades you, once he takes you, and makes you his and his alone.”
“But salvation,” she heard herself saying though she still couldn’t feel her lips move and the four syllables sounded more like two.
Her hand, the one with the garden shears, was in his. “Do you want others to suffer as we have?” A long pause, his bulk pressed against her back. “Could you live with yourself should he ruin more innocents?” He paused. His breath warmed the back of her neck. “Should he be able to tempt us from God and throw us off our divine path without consequence? Without regret?”
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