All the gods - Knock out the Gatewatch

Gideon stepped forward. "I swear to help you save the life of your friend."

He delivers promises quickly, Samut thought. She nodded in acceptance.

And froze.

She had felt them before she saw them.

The gods.

All of them.

In a single-file line they approached, Hazoret in the lead, the others just behind. The other four must have come to see the show, to stay together now that the God-Pharaoh was nearly here.

Samut felt compelled to still and hush. The other mortals succumbed to the same spell.

"Dissidents. Your time has come," Hazoret said, voice as hard as steel. "Come, and face the last initiates in the final Trial."

A haze overcame the group, and everything went dark.

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JUDGEMENT