Pillars of Bone and Ash

***Trigger warning – child abuse and implied torture. Seriously, Cixin, why are you this way? Can't you just do villain light? But NOOO, you have to treat children this way. You are so going to get what is coming to you.

"You look hungry, would you like to come to the temple to have something to eat?" The priest from the temple grinned down at the young child. He couldn't have been more than seven or eight years old. Judging by his attire, his parents were either poor or he had recently lost them.

With Tamult's mate marking system, it wasn't that often that there were orphans that took to the streets, but it did happen on occasion. That was one of the functions of the temple. It often took in those who had no family.