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>2 SUCCESS: Your skin is raw and bloody, and you could not possibly stifle every moan of pain at the punishment that you called upon yourself. But you reach the station of the Cross, crawling on your hands and knees when your legs cannot carry you any longer. You do not think you have anything left in you. Gain WOUNDED trait.
<span class="mu-r">+2 Steps on the Path of Cain [18 Steps]</span>
Stripping down to the waist, fear and anticipation build within you at the next trial to await you. Hushed murmurs from the nearby pilgrims greet the sight of the lightning stigmata that starts from your shoulder, underneath the old scar from the basilisk bite, crossing over your back and down the side of your body. It is a mark you bear with pride, proof of the Angel’s attentions and a sign that you have borne the touch of Heaven.
Father Towbray stands at your side, stripped to the waist like yourself. Behind him gather three of his most fervent followers, similarly shirtless. Four in total. Four is a number of great significance in your faith. There are four holy sites along the path of pilgrimage, four legs of the Long Walk in the holy land. There were four knights numbered that carried Adam’s fallen body down from the breach at Aubrey. And four slaver guards that scourged Cain before he was place upon the cross. You and your confessor had talked of this before the Long Walk began, before even you landed on Cathagi’s shores. The sights you have seen, the miracles witnessed, the signs of the Angel’s favour. You and Father Towbray agree, you have been chosen. For what only the Almighty knows, but any vessel of His works cannot content themselves with ordinary shows of faith. For this, the harshest of the Long Walk’s trials, something more is demanded. Something that requires sacrifice.
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