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Elissa

CHAPTER XIV
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Yet hear a message of mercy spoken through my lips: Because you have sinned through love and pity, your offence is not unto death.

Still shall you sorrow for it all your life's days, and in desolation of heart and bitterness of soul shall creep back to the feet of Him you have forsworn.
"Woman, your spirit is noble and your feet are set in the way of righteousness, yet through you has this offence come.

Therefore your love shall bear no fruit, nor shall the blasphemy of your beloved save your flesh from doom.

Upon this earth there is no hope for you, daughter of Sakon; set your eyes beyond it, for there alone is hope.
"Yonder she stands who swore our lives away ?" and he fixed his burning gaze on Mesa.

"Priestess, you plotted this that you might succeed to the throne of Baaltis; now hear your fate: You shall live to sweep the huts and bear the babes of savages.


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