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Led through torchlit silent lanes

Crimson portents rubricae

Past the doorway

Three sided formed

Tattooed priesthood

Faceless, cowled, branded

Enter chambers heathen warmed

Floors engraved with ritual scorn

Rows of zealots eightsided formed

Heathens

Tattooed priesthood

Faceless, Cowled, impure vermin

Blasphemy

Apostates gather. Communion

A foetid assembly, nauseous faith

Judged Guilty

Drawn and quarterеd, left to rot

Godkin descent

Blеss these pale hands

Sweet penitent

Intone thine chants

Bless these pale hands

Grief-stricken heirs

Martyred lineage

Thirteen amphorae line the moor

Before me. Sublime, in clay and

Violet thread

Arranged in patterns of

Remembrance

Cracked open

Listen to these intertwined bones

Whisper a martyred lineage

Grief stricken heirs