Din pursued these studies in her own time, but ran them past Da regularly to make sure that she had not made any obvious blunders.
Everyone was proud of Din and the vil agers said that she had healing hands and a particularly light touch. Da was not jealous of her clever young niece, quite the contrary, telling everyone that Din would make a worthy successor as vil age Shaman, if she herself were ever to die or retire, which was no longer guaranteed now that she was a vampire, although no-one actual y knew the truth about that yet either.
Den was stil looking for innovative routes to interest their guests and had formed a band of volunteers to dance before their guests as if under Heng’s or his command.
