The church was located in the center of the city, often surrounded by believers stopping to pray.
Both the clerics and monks of the Huai Guang Church predominantly wore white robes. This preference was shared by the congregation, which made a group of black-robed followers, whose robes were adorned with dark gray concentric circle emblems, strikingly conspicuous as they lingered at the church entrance.
The contrast in hues was simply too stark.
Anyone with even a rudimentary understanding of the Four Great Orthodox Churches of Terra would immediately recognize this as a procession of the Retrospection Sect. Those with a broader scope of knowledge would discern that this was a student group, led by an Instructor.
The foremost few in the group clutched thick, heavy religious tomes bound in metallic chains, exuding an air of scholarliness.
