The chapel was silent, save for the whisper of turning pages. Sister Aveline Thorne knelt before the altar, candlelight dancing across her armor. Her gauntleted hand hovered above a worn locket, the face inside long faded. Outside, thunder rolled — not from the storm, but the guns of heretics drawing near. "Faith is not the absence of doubt, but the blade that carves through it."
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