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"I guess that is true. Maybe we both need to let go, but that doesn't mean that we can't try to change what we see." Salus opened the door to the room that the were standing in and walked out into the larger outer temple.

The outer temple was the area where seen by most of the public. It had a high stone roof held in place my large pillars that filled the room, giving the viewer the sense that they were walking in a stone forest. The walls of the outer temple were made up are large stones worn smooth with age. Squares of light lit the room day and night as there were no windows to the outer world. The squares of light were made of up rows and rows of candles surrounding headless and armless statues. Some of the candles were for the dead or nearly dead, others were linked to the healing of people, and the vast majority were linked to families. For these candles the Sakpatian priests and priestesses would pray to their nameless Gods for you.

A female acolyte in white robs walked over to Salus and whispered something into his ear. Orphic looked at the candles and wondered absently why people paid money for other people to pray to Gods that didn't exists. Gods that no one believed in anymore. "We don't even know their names."

Orphic watched Salus called over a fellow apostle in a brown robe. The began to talk in hushed tones that echoed off of the stone walls. Orphic could not understand the words that they were saying but from the low murmuring echoes he could tell that it was somewhat heating. Not wanting anything to do with it he began to stroll through the temple. It gave him an excuse to look at some of the statues that he had been unwilling to look at for a long time.