Chapter 16
The Forest is PunishedAs autumn gradually came to the community, Karne and Kyra worked hard to change the villagers’ attitude to Wardyke. As they had expected, it was not easy.
They explained much of what had happened to them to people they felt were ready for it, starting with their family.
Their father listened to everything they had to say with great attention and asked few, but pertinent, questions. Their mother was immediately horrified at the risks Kyra had been taking and the blasphemy of her entering the forbidden Sacred Circle. She was so occupied with fussing about these things that she did not seem to grasp the real implication of what they told her.
Thon was angry almost immediately and wanted action, arguing that the Lords of the Sun were soft and that there was
