Chapter 8 Gya and IsarGya and Isar had been good friends since Groth’s war, though two more different personalities it would be difficult to find. Isar, quiet, reserved, ever conscious of the complex and varied levels of existence; Gya, accepting only what his five senses could provide for him, quick to love and hate, quick to act without thinking. It was Gya who had turned a motley band of rebels into the efficient army which had been largely instrumental in defeating Na-Groth’s formidable forces on the physical plane, while Isar, with the help of Lark and Maal, had destroyed their leader in a different and more subtle way, from within, by playing on his most secret fears. There had been no animosity between them when Gya married Deva. Isar was delighted. He believed at the time that hi

