Chapter 12
The night of the rising starMaal arranged with Kyra in the days that followed that they would make their bid to contact the Lords of the Sun on the night of a particular rising star. He claimed that during this night the powers of the circle were at their greatest. At the rising of the star called Magus from the sea horizon, directly over the stone of the star, their particular circle was in closer contact than at any other time with the forces of the unseen world. At a certain point in the night when the whole star pattern had wheeled silently over their dark fields and hills to lie in a particular configuration, Maal would best be able to manipulate his powers in conjunction with the powers of the spirit world and travel greater distances and with greater surety than at any o
