Raine was exiled here, awaiting a public execution. But on his first night, he altered a prayer. Holy water turned against them, miracles veered off course, and prayers changed their meaning. God stopped answering them and began answering him instead. He rescued a mad nun, uncovered an old buried corpse case, and gradually turned a dying monastery into a “heretics’ lair.” The nuns stopped praying. They learned to use God. Every wave of inquisitors that came, he slaughtered. When the bishop ordered a purge, he exposed the marks of sin for all to see. Until one day, the whole snowy wilderness was saying:
“That is no monastery.”
“That is... a place that devours God.”
And Raine had only just turned to the second page of the book.
