The Spike of Conviction: The World Through the Eyes of the Witch's Apostles

The wall weeps, the earth holds its breath, and in the silence beneath Calista's ruined monastery, Gouf trains the broken into weapons—because that is what the Witch's Cult made of him, long ago. He does not question his purpose. He teaches pain because pain is the only language this world ever taught him. He kneels before Echidna's carved words—*doubt the world's righteousness*—and believes, or tells himself he believes, that his hatred of the kingdom's rotten order is pure. But purity is a l