Who thinks up this kind of plot?
Goddess lives in your well? Cure a goddess that was cursed for who knows how many hundreds of years? Become the master of a goddess?
I don't really get all this spy drama. I would have assumed that having the gates and towers all managed by association agents, they control who goes in and out. And why would people simply assume anyone other than themselves are spies and attack? It's like going for a walk in the part, and...