Chapter 11: The God

There was a cave. In Laguna. Where only the gods could dwell. A temple. A house. A solitude. Alice. Only Alice, Miko, and Lyle knew where. It was a long drive. In Alice’s black Mazda. She drove past and across highway to highway. City to city. And village to village. She had eventually reached the isolation. In a forest. A labyrinth only those of the guided knew. Only those of the Kadlum’s batok. She had never imagined herself back into the place again. But it felt like she needed to. To rest. And think. And pray. Kadlum had not shown himself to Alice yet, ever since the dream. She felt like, maybe, maybe he was waiting. And maybe, he was just as afraid as Alice.

The gods were powerful and wise. But they weren’t omnipresent.

Especially…

…since there were only just so few of them. Especially since the ones who have been abandoned after the genocide… have barely been surviving.

Kadlum. The god of ascendence. T