Chapter 12
DevaDeva sat at the feet of Urak and learned everything she was prepared to teach. The woman was tireless, working late into the night, determined that by the time she died Deva would know enough and be loyal enough to her to disrupt, if not utterly destroy, the hated Temple of the Sun for ever.
Deva was fascinated by what Urak was teaching her. This was better than the Temple training. Leaps and strides were made in no time at all. None of those wearisome preparatory exercises, that tedious training in self-discipline and those long, long years of steady, step by step advance. Here there was no talk of ‘essential groundwork’ or ‘responsibility’. Each day she could try something new whether she had grasped the previous day’s lesson or not. Why did the Temple make such an issue
