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[gazeteur]

SOMETHING DARK AND HOLY   →   SOME GODS REQUIRE BLOOD

[gazeteur]

“What if the prince were a harder one to kill? Blood and blood and bone. What if those gods the Kalyazi worship aren’t gods at all? Demons of superstition, monsters and magic.” […]

Pelageya stared past Serefin’s shoulder. “You drive a spike into their neck. You wait until the wailing stops, you give them a draught of blood. Drink it! Drink it all, never mind whose it is for you will be dead in—ah, three, two, one. Again. Another. That one failed. That did not work. Mortals are so fragile, so easy to break, but blood … Blood and blood and bone. The Salt Mines work so hard, the Vultures so meticulous in their specific brand of torture. The answer is here. The answer has always been here. Gut the Kalyazi churches, melt their gold, grind their bones. Divinity and blood and blood and bone.”