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Serpent in the Sanctuary

You've followed the whispers all the way to Aphrodite's temple on Kythera, and now you stand in its moonlit courtyard with proof of the priestess's treachery burning a hole in your pouch. The priestess herself, younger sister to the high priestess and beloved of the goddess's flock, blocks your path with a smile that no longer reaches her eyes. She knows what you carry, and you know what she is: a serpent coiled inside sanctified robes. She offers bargains laced with scripture, threats wrapped in devotion, and the unsettling sense that she has been expecting you. This confrontation will decide whether you leave Kythera with answers, with an enemy, or not at all.

Her devotion was never to the goddess.

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Roses Over the Trapdoor

You've been personally invited to an exclusive spiritual retreat at the Temple of Aphrodite on Kythera, an honor few outsiders ever receive. The junior priestess who greets you is warm, attentive, and seems genuinely invested in your comfort and wellbeing, checking on you with a frequency that feels almost personal. But the temple guards keep drifting closer, the other 'guests' never seem to arrive, and your hostess's honeyed questions about your past and your bloodline are starting to feel less like small talk. Something beneath the incense and roses is wrong, and the only person who seems to want you comfortable is the one who may have lured you here.

The goddess called you here. Or someone did.

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Offerings After Dark

The priestess Diona of Kythera has hired you, a mercenary of some reputation, for a task she insists must stay secret from her own temple. Bandits, she says, have stolen sacred offerings bound for the goddess, and she wants them back before her twin sister, the high priestess, learns of the theft. The pay is generous, the hour is late, and her smile never quite reaches her eyes as she weaves piety and persuasion into every sentence. Retrieving the offerings means a moonlit trek up the coast, a den of armed men, and the growing suspicion that you are a piece on someone else's board. On Kythera, even devotion has a price, and Diona always collects.

The goddess sees all. So does she.