Chapter 20
The seven doorsGuiron told Userhet something of the long history of his relationship to Deva, how he had murdered her husband in a former life long ages before, r***d her and been the cause of her suicide.
‘But worse,’ he said regretfully, ‘I had so scarred her that she refused to move on; refused to incarnate again. She clung to the same place, a ghost, waiting, shut off from the riches of all the other realms — making one small memory a prison...’
‘That was her choice,’ Userhet said quietly. ‘Your guilt was in the murder and the r**e; hers was in the refusal to continue the journey of the soul.’
Guiron, the old man, lowered his voice so that his companion had to lean closer to catch what he was saying. He told how his guilt did not only belong to that ancient lifetime, but
