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They Paid Me to Guard the God Below, but I Turned the Drum Against Them

Imagine getting paid to bang a drum on the edge of the world… …and realizing every beat is slowly killing your own village. “They Paid Me to Guard the God Below, but I Turned the Drum Against Them” is a dark fantasy story about Arin, a broke desert villager hired by the Black Sun Empire to sit on a creaking wooden platform above a bottomless chasm and keep a chained god asleep with his drum. The rules are simple: Never miss a beat. Never leave the drum. Never listen to the voice under the stone. But then Arin starts to hear his own name echoing up from the depths. At the same time, a secret message from home arrives: his desert village is being taxed dry of water, all “for the glory of keeping the god asleep.” Caught between: An empire that pays him in gold to be their living chain, A buried god, Narul, that is very much awake, And a family that might die of thirst… …Arin has to choose who he’s really beating the drum for. On Binding Day, when the Empire tightens the chains around Narul with blood, oaths, and rhythm, Arin does the unforgivable: he switches from the Empire’s sacred pattern to the festival rhythm of his home village—and forces a god to remember something other than fear. If you’re into: Gritty dark fantasy in a scorched desert world Gods in chains, oppressive empires, impossible bargains Moral choices where “save the world” and “save your family” don’t line up …this story’s for you. 👍 If you enjoyed this, hit Like, Subscribe, and ring the bell so you don’t miss the next story from this world. 📝 Tell me in the comments: If you were Arin, would you keep the beat for the Empire—or change the rhythm and risk everything? #darkfantasy #audiostory #fantasyshortstory #grimdark #storytime #narration