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The Hero's Story: The Great Betrayer

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A pair of young men from the village had found him by the side of the road, just toward the local wood. He was badly wounded, as far as they could see, and completely unconscious. They had brought him right to her. She had been sitting in a chair on the veranda at the time, sewing. When she heard them shouting, she knew something had happened. Her healing skills had been in demand recently, after all. She rose from her seat, ushering the men and their cargo inside. Ever since the Great Betrayer had seized the capitol, things like this seemed to be happening with worrying regularity. Still, she tried not to think about that. The capitol was far away, and there was plenty more immediate things to worry about. The man's wounds were severe, she worked on him for hours on the night she received him, going to bed herself only when he was stabilised. Not that she resented such effort of course. She was a priestess of Mercy, the goddess of healing, kindness and purity. This was the work she'd been born to do. …show more content…

Even if he wasn't responsive, however, she was happy for the company, it got lonely in her small chapel. She'd been sent here when she was sixteen, her temple-academy training complete. Her role now was to maintain a small chapel on her own, a life of quiet contemplation. It had been three years since then, and the four rooms of her modest shrine often seemed unbearably small. It wasn't often, as such, that she got visitors. Particularly men. And even rarer men like this. He seemed older to the priestess, perhaps as much as twice her age. He was solid, rugged, handsome. She felt a little flutter in her chest when she leant down to tend to his wounds, or listened to the powerful, rythmic thump of his heartbeat. It wasn't long before she had impure

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