Chapter 10
The First ChallengeWhile Maal was training Kyra to project her will and mind to join with his, and Karne and Fern were working secretly upon the tunnel, new settlers began to come to their valley.
At first one or two families arrived, were greeted with great warmth by the community and soon made to feel at home. But within weeks others came, and what had once been a very close-knit and related group of homesteads became an untidy and sprawling collection of disparate elements. The strangers were everywhere, taking over land that since the ancient times had been common grazing land. They put up their homes, which were no more than badly built shacks, wherever they wished with no regard to the harmonious flow of village life.
The original villagers began to grumble.
‘They seem
