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The gods have killed all the witches.

Well, one of them still survives. And thankfully, her sisters were able to take many of the gods with them. But when a goddess resurfaces to take over the human world, will our heroine accept a call to stop her? Or will she prefer to be left alone and live a simple, peaceful life by herself?

And what will she do if others come expecting her to help? After all, Afena is known to have killed a god by herself. How can she escape that kind of reputation?

Afena Inarenta

To Treni, pride had always been a mask that one should take on and off as the situation demanded. Like right now. Lying next to Rudsis in her bed, she remembered how her cousins and sister had always wondered how she could debase herself by sleeping with humans. Or, as she was caught in some of her schemes, they were always puzzled by how she could come to grovel, and shed every bit of self-respect she could have had for herself, in order to get her way.

"Who's around to tell about it, and who isn't?" she thought. "It's all a mask, my dear siblings. Nothing but a mask. What's hidden underneath will always be there, but most everyone lets themselves be fooled by the mask you let them see."

Treni's mind was wandering tonight. She knew that Ol had failed to kill Afena because his mind had been even more deranged a day after she'd fled from the lorsul. No coherent thought graced it. Only fear, and an overriding instinct of survival.

Blood Pact