The Silence Beneath the Web
Dark fantasy · A temple beneath the earth · 15 chapters · 31,814 words · free EPUB
A young priestess in a deep-earth temple realizes her goddess has stopped answering — and that the silence may be the only honest thing her faith has ever given her.
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From Chapter 1
The silence of the Chamber had a weight to it, a physical pressure that settled over Vespera's shoulders like a wool cloak soaked in water. She sat cross-legged on the carved obsidian platform at the chamber's center, spine straight, hands resting palm-up on her knees, and let that weight press her deeper into stillness.
Around her, the silk threads hummed.
Not a sound exactly—the air here was too thin for ordinary acoustics to carry far—but a vibration that moved through bone and sinew. Each thread stretched from the cavern ceiling to the floor in radiating spokes, dozens of them, hundreds, each one tuned to a different frequency of Vespera's attention. When the chamber was empty, the threads sang in their slow, patient chorus. When a prayer arrived, one thread would tighten, and the song would shift.
Vespera had spent six years learning to hear the difference.