Chapter 15
The Lords of the SunWardyke was within the Sacred Circle when the bright and wandering star the villagers called Magus rose above the stone of the star. He stood in the centre and spoke the incantations to the gods that were expected of him. Around the circle, making another circle, the seven new Elders walked with slow and measured tread, keeping a constant circular current going. Beyond them Wardyke’s strangers stood, and beyond them again some of the villagers who were not at that time keeping watch by the burial fires waited forlornly, still numbed by the events of the past few days.
Karne, Kyra and Fern were among these but well to the back, in the shadow, keeping carefully out of sight.
Kyra was very tense. Her fingers gripped those of her brother with an almost crippli
