The tried-and-true pattern for a powerful female protagonist's comeback story is "Thirty years in the west of the river, thirty years in the east, never underestimate a young girl's poverty."
The counter-pattern is "Never underestimate a young man's poverty, agree tacitly on middle-age poverty, the dead are supreme."
When it came to Arthur's abstract pattern, it became "Never underestimate LGBT poverty"!
You've been ahead of the domestic feel-good fiction versions for too many years!
He watched mercilessly as Arthur was dragged away, then shifted his gaze to the third and highest level of the Ceremony Hall.
This level was the heaviest weight of the evening.
This is where the seats for the Cardinals of the Seven Great Churches are located—no fewer than seven Demigods of the Church will be present at this ceremony. Each representing their own Church faction, and the "Bishop of Chaos," whom An Su had been seeking all along, was very likely concealed among these seven.
