“If it’s the family’s goods, why don’t they dig it up again?”
“It would be desecration for them to violate their own relative’s grave.”
“But it’s not desecration for you to do it,” Jade stated.
“All such things are but illusions, so the masters tell us.”
“These illusions belong to widows and orphans.”
“When we take the possessions, we will store them somewhere. If Clouds’ family should then steal them from us, that would not be desecration; the Furgato monastery would then merely have lost some minor illusions.”
Jade couldn’t help but smile at the way charity worked on Restaapa. “But what if the Mavijutos tried to steal the things from you?”
“They would probably have a harder time of it,” Peaches said somberly.
Jade was starting to rub her arms to give the illusion of warmth when P
