Prayer and Magic
By @Larry Connor
The year is 1984. A school bus, carrying children eager for a Chennai road trip, vanishes into the creeping, mind-bending fog of India’s Mount Zion – a peak whispered to be forbidden. Sid, a fiercely intelligent but hot-headed student, finds himself and his classmates ensnared in a cosmic nightmare where reality itself frays. The fog is a living shroud woven by the Archons, ancient, malevolent entities serving the Demiurge, Yaldabaoth, whose forgotten temple is Mount Zion itself. These deities of old bend logic and perception, transforming their familiar world into a grotesque, inescapable labyrinth. As the children’s hope dwindles and sanity cracks, Sid must abandon conventional thought. He possesses no supernatural gift beyond a sharp intellect and growing resourcefulness, yet he must delve into the nascent, dangerous power of chaos magic, not just to survive the Archons’ reality-warping games, but to unravel a primordial conspiracy threatening to claim their very souls. Their innocent journey has become a desperate fight against gods who twist existence.
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