When she was chosen to be a priestess at the Temple of Darkness, she felt deeply honored and overwhelmed. Of the kingdom’s great temples, it wasn’t so prestigious a placement as the Light Temple or the Water Temple, but she was sure they were going to seal her up in the Earth Temple or make her sweat in the Fire Temple.
The other acolytes openly pitied her. It was not a glamorous assignment. But she wasn’t afraid of the dark.
But it was a long time and many bruised ankles before she learned the trick of not bumping into altars.

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