He questioned on and on until Kyra had told him everything she could.
‘You made the contact,’ Khu-ren said, and she winced at the sharp edge to his voice. ‘And you lost it because you let your emotions get in the way.’
It was true. This was not the first time such a link had been broken because she couldn’t control her feelings. It was probably the passionate strength of her love in the first place that had enabled her to reach Deva, where Khu-ren’s more controlled and sober affection had not. But if only she had not given way like that, if only she had kept control, held her attention steady — behaved like a great priest and initiate of the Mysteries rather than as an ordinary woman with a child... She shuddered at the memory of that skeletal figure and at the hints Guiron had given her
