Sworn beneath the old gods (and new).
Carried like iron under the cloak.
Faith · 2025-11-25
The dangerous part of prayer is not asking. The dangerous part comes afterward, when the words have been spoken and the old excuse is still sitting there, alive and patient. A man asks for courage and then has to decide whether he meant courage or rescue. [more]
Faith · 2021-07-13
I wipe the shrine surface with a cloth and the cloth comes away slightly gray. Not filth. Use. A fine film of dust that settles on every horizontal plane in a lived-in house, plus the faint stickiness that follows drink offerings and the dull bloom that candle heat leaves when wax has been warmed and cooled a hundred times. [more]
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