Kyra looked up hopefully at that.
‘...Before the Spring a new priest will arrive to work in your community. He will have the final seal and he will be a good man...’
‘...When he comes, you will leave, your work there done...’
She looked startled. Leave her home?
‘...You will travel south through many trials and dangers and you will come, in the flesh, to this place and you will train to be a priest yourself...’
She gasped. Me.
‘...Yes, you. You have been chosen...’
‘...But there is much still for you to do.’
‘When you return to your home this dawn you will go to the place where Maal is buried and you will find a small stone upon his burial mound. Yes, you will know which one it is when you see it. You will take it and keep it close with you until Wardyke is overthrown. Maal’s help
