She waited eons for him. Hundreds of human lifetimes, marked by the work of her hands and the longing of her heart, dancing with her lover Death in the ashes of her lust. Her Sisters and her Brother the-One-True-God sought to keep her heart beating, but century after century it hardened until it threatened to become naught but dust. Until she very nearly forgot him.But he came.He searched for her his whole life — and perhaps even the life before this one, and the life before that. When Addon from the East finally found his way to the Center of the World and entered the Goddess of Destruction's temple, he came to her in strength and humility, in the Old Way. He stepped into the presence of Greatness, but his heart was not afraid. He had found his destiny.Their need for each other is tempered only by Sachi's desire to see Addon live, rather than be consumed in the fire of her body — for none can lay with the Goddess of Destruction and survive. But a darkness is rising in the West that seeks to claim what is Sachi's and Sachi's alone — the power to destroy, utterly. The Goddess and her Consort must journey to the ends of their world to seek out this new enemy and restore the Balance.Their journey can only bring destruction in the end, for that is all there is for Sachi, and all there is for Addon. But along the way, mayhap they can find something else. Together.