EP22: By Those Lights

The distinction between speaking and praying shakes the divine construct to her ancient foundations.

By Those Lights. The sea teaches humility to those who have never known water deeper than the Kogi River. Marcus journals through seasickness and terror: 'Lloyd, preserve me.' Yet by the third morning, the true cleric has taught the crew Quaylithon's dawn song, and they sing with him — faith serving as anchor upon treacherous waters. Weisa makes a revelation that alters the trajectory of her story: she has a twin brother whose existence her parents deliberately concealed. 'It was only just before Publia brought me to Juramentum that he came to me in a dream.' Nilishli, hearing Weisa pray aloud to the Coatl, arrives at an equally profound realization — she has never truly prayed to Tezcatli. For four hundred winters she has spoken to the Dread Mother without once actually praying. The distinction between speaking and praying shakes the divine construct to her ancient foundations.