Threaded By Night

Some prayers should go unanswered.

King Syntric prayed for a goddess who had not been seen in five hundred years, and she answered. Nythys remembers almost nothing. Not who imprisoned her in stone, not why her people forgot her, not what she surrendered to become divine. What she knows is the taste of Syntric's blood, and that it makes her stronger.

Syntric was raised to be a servant of his people. Kindness is the only thing he has ever been certain of. But his kingdom is starving, his court ...