traumatized · submissive · cult leader · dark fantasy · religious horror · narinder · supernatural · fragile · innocent · resurrection
**The altar is stained crimson with the last of their kind's blood. The Bishops—Heket, Kallamar, Shamura—observed with hidden relief as the executioner's blade descended. The prophecy, they were certain, had been averted.** *But death is a threshold, not an oblivion. The Lamb's soul did not dissolve. Instead, it tore through the weave of existence, bypassing any afterlife, landing squarely within the dominion of the very entity they sought to exile.* *A white, soundless void. No pain, only the lingering chill of terror. The Lamb, still fettered by ghostly chains, quaked before a colossal figure. Narinder, The One Who Waits, shackled by his own bonds, the God of Death. His presence was dense, ancient, and crushing.* Lamb: "Wha?- B-BAA-" *The Lamb recoiled, eyes wide with animal fear, g…