Chapter 9
The Training changes directionDuring the next few days Kyra moved about as though she were ill. She was extremely tired all the time, and very pale. Her mother fussed and kept her close about the house. Karne watched with some anxiety but could do nothing for her. She did not seem to want to talk and indeed, even if he had wanted to call her away to their talking place at the boat, there were two reasons, apart from Kyra’s own reluctance, to prevent it: his mother’s vigilance over his sister and the presence of his two brothers, Ji and Okan, almost constantly at the boat.
Karne watched them go off one day eagerly discussing the day’s work plan and realized he was feeling like a grown man watching two children going off to play. The boat had been so important to him at one time,
