Hope's light

A dark grey cloud looms over the city as you wake up and get out of bed. "One week until the ritual." You think to yourself. The ritual is a yearly event where the Followers of Gleam sacrifice someone to keep Gleam happy, it's said that if this ritual isn't completed the world will burn to sunder. Everyone hates the ritual seemingly even the Followers of Gleam but legend say last time they defied Gleam it took to centuries to repair the city.

But I think