“You mean the king,” Salim says, watching Vigilance closely. “She has taken the goddess’s throne. But you knew that already.” Vigilance dips his head in a quiet nod. “The gods were due a reckoning, I suppose. Our hubris created the very monster you must now confront.” “And that’s the truth about heaven,” Arante once said to Salim. “It devours universes to feed the greed of its gods. Stars, worlds, everything turned to ash. But why? Why, when that power could be harnessed to fix this universe and make it better? All those people you saw in that lake. All that sorrow. The gates of heaven hold
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