“The horde often knocks them down,” Xari explained. “There are many similar shrines throughout Nightfall, spaced out so that we might reach one at least every other day and pray for continued protection. None of Gaian’s followers would dare remove one of the stones. They wouldn’t admit it, but they fear the gods’ power as much as they fear Gaian. After all, we believe all three gods worked to seal these lands.”
Zen and the others were left standing, as Xari and each of her fellows knelt before the shrine in quiet prayer. Not even Dante with his usual boisterousness dared speak over the silence.
Xari was clearly a priest of their beliefs, for lack of a better term, but several others proved to have amulets like hers, all beginning to glow, and then the stones began to glow, too.
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