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Valentinus sat in a stone chamber, watching the priest of Ennoia perform a ritual.
The priest stood before a statue of a sea serpent and muttered names. Though the figure had been the size of a man, it seemed much smaller to Valentinus each time he looked at it. When he gazed again, after staring at the image of a deluge on the chamber's ceiling, he had to peer closely to see the statue at all.