By the gods.

What am I going to do?

I knelt down in prayer, "Goddess Alexandra, Lady of Redemption, I am just a humble priest and I am asking for guidance. A few days ago a relic, your very own medallion that you have bestowed upon us humans to call you to us, has been stolen from the vaults, by a vicious man called Aebshem, and his band of lackeys worshiping false idols. I have sent forth heroes first-class to retrieve it from their evil grasp but I still worry.

I have done everything in my power but I wish to do more than this frail body would allow me.

Cursed be my own hand for it cannot even strike when the gods call on me to do so.

Oh divine Mother, send me a sign. What more can I do?"

The silence was interrupted by the church doors opening.

It was Lenos, a reluctant young man who I believed came to the services more frequently lately.

"Father Zedro!" He exclaimed, "I am here to inform you that I will not be needing your help anymore."

"Why? After you came to me with concerns about your mother's health I was and still am fully willing to help with anything that problems her and you, too," I stated with concern.

"I don't need help anymore. She completely recovered."

"A miracle?"

"It was no miracle, Father. As you know, you were the last vestige of hope that I had to save her but when I heard that a wise woman had settled right outside the city I figured I give it a shot and paid her a visit. I would have given anything but not only did she return my mother to her full strength, maybe even beyond that, and also cure any ailment that I had, like the slight limp that I had been born with but she did so at absolutely no cost.

And that's not the last of it, after everything she had already done for us she even gave me a sack of gold then told me, not in a very polite way that I should leave her alone.

Of course, I was not the only one who went to her in time of need, Olnen went and she regrew the arm he had lost in an accident when he was a child. Dendas went and asked for love advice, gods know why he would do that. He didn't tell me what she said but it sounded like he was very content. Alumu also went and asked for life advice and she told her to become a poet

She wrote a trilogy of stories called The Big Three, Whirpool, Brighten and A Whole and they're on their way to becoming the most famous in the whole country."

I looked at the colored mosaic of the Goddess right above the central altar, "Is this the sign?"