The Ways We Betray

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>To protect those who matter most we will betray others in ways we never expected.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This is supposed to be a good year. With a new set of instructors - and ones I know well - I'm sure it will be. For once things are finally starting to go my way. My mentors are proud my family is closer than ever before and I am happy.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Unfortunately the gods are tired of waiting. Every day Zeal grows stronger but Ambition Inspiration Perception Compassion and Intuition don't. They're fading with no hope in sight.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Except me.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Piece by piece my god has built me up given me weapons to use and made me into the kind of woman I can be proud of. He calls me his partner and that isn't an empty title. It means more than just serving him. I can tell by the longing in his divine eyes.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>My success doesn't go unnoticed though. My haters want to destroy me but let them try. Petty bullying is too childish for me to worry about. With so many priests able to see the God of Temptation now I no longer care who likes me and who doesn't.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And that's my biggest mistake.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Because my god doesn't run this temple. He doesn't make the rules. With a single signed paper I'm no longer as safe as I thought. Friends are going to be betrayed. Lovers will suffer. Somehow I have to fix this.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I am the Priestess of Temptation Zeal's chosen.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Someone is going to be punished.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I almost hope it's me.</span></p><p></p>