Chapter 163: The Night Mother's Visit
Black Moon Town,
Temple of the Night,
Torug's POV,
The external temple was empty at this hour.
That was the point of this hour, probably. The clan's religious observances happened at dawn and dusk - offerings left at the altar, the younger warriors doing the prayer forms Vaggi had taught them, the occasional hobgoblin sitting quietly in front of Ayaseh's idol with something on their mind. Though Dabok remains curious about the goddess...
By mid-afternoon the place belonged to the dust and the incense and whatever else occupied sacred spaces between uses.
Passing through the massive white stone doors of the inner temple, the temperature changed before I even saw her.
That shift in the air that meant the boundary between what was present and what was visiting had adjusted itself. The torches along the temple walls flickered once and the flames turned green.
