She began to think of the mission Khu-ren had given her. She had turned her back on it, but had it turned its back on her? The ghost-owl was not going to let her go after all. Had she been led to this place deliberately? Was she trapped here until she agreed to cooperate? Farla had set off to find her independence — but there didn’t seem to be such a thing. In whatever direction she turned she seemed to end up facing the same way.
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The work of the great Temple had to continue as usual. Kyra and Khu-ren knew that too much depended on them to concentrate only on their daughter. Every priest of every far-flung circle had been alerted that a dark force, bearing the name Urak, was active again and asked if they knew anything that might help them find her. Meanwhile the teaching and tra
