Owl and Hoplon

[Thunderer]

"अपो अस्मान मातरः शुन्धयन्तु घर्तेन नो घर्तप्वः पुनन्तु
विश्वं हि रिप्रं परवहन्ति देविरुदिदाभ्यः शुचिरापूत एमि"

The words of unexplained power slid gently from the depth of a soul to envelop the edges of a statue. It was a small, portable figurine of Saraswati, the Hindu devi of wisdom. The patina over her bronze eyes suggested they had seen many generations. Their view was perfectly indifferent to all of them, same as the day the metal cooled down.

A pair of devoted eyes with the blackness of a cave slowly, and cautiously, lifted their view from the floor to the ceiling. The figurine lay in the middle, and they purposely avoided it.

He was kneeling before, and now he was John Khatri, a captain in the Bretonian Armed Forces, with a duty on his shoulders.

The chamber was small, dark and empty. A pedestal and the figurine was all it contained. Khatri left. He closed the door very gently, as if taking care not to wake the deity. Then he bolted through the brightly lit corridor of sterile whiteness. He was the captain of the ship, and the ship needed him. It was about to send a mooring request.

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