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'Faithful Service' tells the tragic tale of Rezarta, an Albanian woman living in the Dark Ages. Driven by the grief of losing her fiancé to another woman, she makes a pact with a demon to grant her the power for her vengeance. But at a terrible cost.
She soon learns that power is a corrupting influence, and that she has bartered the souls of her family to something truly evil.
It is then that she meets a peculiar priest with his own tale of divine ignorance and self-realised salvation. He alone can promise a reprieve from the malign attentions of the demon, but his solution isn't without its own chains. Can Rezarta learn to choose between the evils before her and free her family, or will she cast them down into further chaos?
She soon learns that power is a corrupting influence, and that she has bartered the souls of her family to something truly evil.
It is then that she meets a peculiar priest with his own tale of divine ignorance and self-realised salvation. He alone can promise a reprieve from the malign attentions of the demon, but his solution isn't without its own chains. Can Rezarta learn to choose between the evils before her and free her family, or will she cast them down into further chaos?
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She soon learns that power is a corrupting influence, and that she has bartered the souls of her family to something truly evil.
You know that saying "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely"? My brother coined his own version: "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power tends to corrupt absolutely." ...Which I think even further validates the original saying. Everyone knows that power corrupts...but everyone also thinks that they are the exception who is immune to its influence.