Literature
The Ascent
The light in the priest's study was dim. It was never good to have too many candles close to all the books. The single candle on his desk had been burning for hours into the night already. He had not realized how long he had been sitting there, reading up on one of the old stories of the Gods. He was so focused on his reading, that he was not aware of anything around him.
When the light in the room grew stronger, he thought one of the younger priests had come to tell him to go to bed. But on a new moon's night, sleep had never come easy. The dark night sky unsettled him. Even as a young boy, he was scared of the dark spot, where the moon usu
