But before I begin my Story, there is still one thing I want to ask, Evagus, Eusebius and all the rest of you: Do you still believe? I read all those scrolls that Rufinus rushes to save now. Scrolls about gods and our debt to them, demons, sorcerers, about revenge, repentance, and forgiveness. Why are your gods so furious with us? From the moment we’re born, they just can’t swallow the fact that we dare to walk the earth freely under their sun. The only thing they care about is that we repent and fall to our hands and knees and ask for their forgiveness, drowned in the blood of our love. Do
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