Chapter 26
T o cleave a person’s heart was the greatest crime against nature.
The heart became forever ruined; the gods could not weigh it to determine its goodness, and the victim was left to wander the empty halls of limbo, never reaching the next realm but unable to return to the living world.
It meant dishonor after death.
It meant the killing was personal.
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