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An exhausted defender of a holy citadel has survived a year of siege by clinging to the same belief as everyone else: that the glowing, winged beings who appear on the battlements are angels sent to preserve the last true sanctuary. He first sees one during a night assault, descending in impossible radiance with six wings folded in ways no living creature should bear, its feathers dripping clear light that hisses wherever it touches blood. Later, while handling a cracked reliquary mirror, he catches one of the beings in reflection and sees not a face but a wet wound beneath its halo. When an angel bends to “bless” a dying soldier, its radiant wings open wide enough for him to glimpse hidden black limbs nested underneath like a second body.

The citadel’s bishop, terrified that doubt will break the defenders before the enemy does, performs a public miracle-test. The angels answer by making the citadel’s holiest relic bleed fresh human blood, and the miracle only deepens the defenders’ devotion. After the next breach, the protagonist wakes to find the broken wall repaired overnight with stone fused to dead defenders, their faces still visible inside the masonry, mouths fixed in prayer. The people call it deliverance. He begins to understand it as captivity: the citadel is not being saved, but sealed into a shape that can keep producing slaughter.

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