*Continued from part 4.1…*
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Tetenia had done it. One-hundred-fifty-six and half hours of Full Worship in penance. Fourteen hours per day for eleven days. Plus an hour per day of Full Worship in Ceremony.
Her reward? 18,728 abrogations.Two-hundred-twenty-three days on her knees for fourteen hours per day. Abrogations beget abrogations. This all grew out of one hour of Full Worship. Nearly a year on her knees, the golden phallus down her throat.
She couldn’t take it anymore. Despite being advised otherwise, she decided to go to His Supremacy and request absolvance of penance. Even a brief reprieve would be worthwhile.
Going to His Supremacy was not exactly easy. His Sacred Palace was massive, but He probably wasn’t even in it. The main structure of the palace – a hulk of imposing marble spanning the entire northern shore of the lake at the center of the Estate – gave way on its eastern and western sides to a maze of pleasure gardens, interspersed with zigs and zags of colonnades and one, two and three story structures with thousands of rooms for His use. It was all linked up to the main palace, a jumble of trees and shrubs exotic and local, pools and fountains and courtyards and shaded spots and areas where He could be pleasured and worshipped, for a distance of about five miles down either side of the lake. These were remarkably pleasant, often beautiful, places, and were where His Supremacy preferred to spend most of His time.