The Goblin's Pet Aphrodite -

Grizmak called her Aphrodite.

Grizmak wept. For the first time in his miserable, wretched life, he wept tears of joy. The goblin, the monster of the Ironwood, fell to his knees before his Aphrodite. But he was not bowing in submission. He was bowing in gratitude. the goblin's pet aphrodite

He knew it wasn’t the Aphrodite. He wasn’t a fool. The Goddess of Love was far beyond the reach of a goblin, even one as cunning as he. But she looked like the depictions he had once seen in a stolen book from a human library. She was his own private Aphrodite, a silent queen in a kingdom of mud. Grizmak called her Aphrodite

The air crackled, smelling of ozone and roses. The goblin, the monster of the Ironwood, fell

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“You cannot break a goddess,” they said. The goblin nodded, polishing her cage. “That’s fine,” he said. “I don’t want her broken. I want her to match my spoons.”

It was a statue. No, that was too crude a word. It was a figure of a woman, carved from marble so white it made the moonlight look yellow. She stood with one arm raised, her robes falling in cascading folds that looked softer than silk, despite being solid stone. Her face was turned slightly upward, lips parted in an expression of eternal, serene ecstasy. She was beauty incarnate, untouched by the filth of the world.