I Won't Lose! ~30 Days A Priestess -
“You think I came here perfect?” I asked my reflection. “I came here hungry. I came here bleeding. I came here with nothing but thirty dawns of refusing to stay down.”
“Thirty days,” the High Oracle had said, her voice like dry leaves. “Survive the trials of the Moonless Path, and you will earn the title of True Priestess. Fail, and your soul becomes part of the silence.” i won't lose! ~30 days a priestess
They sent a phantom wearing my mother’s face. It asked why I was still fighting. “You were always too stubborn,” it crooned. “Too weak to know when to kneel.” “You think I came here perfect
The temple gates groaned shut behind me. No army. No blessings. Just a threadbare robe and a cracked wooden staff. I came here with nothing but thirty dawns
I lifted my chin. The staff in my hand was no longer cracked—it was blazing with soft, steady light.
