Chapter 11
Kyra’s InaugurationIn the next few days Kyra had many formalities to attend to, and most of them in the pouring rain.
Her student friends were delighted with her success but sorry to see her move out of their immediate circle. She would now live on the other side of the Temple among the other priests who were continuing their studies, and would be cut off from her old companions in many ways.
The last but one night before the ceremony, they made an enormous bonfire in a field some distance from the college and had a wild party, all their years of serious study forgotten, and they danced and sang as they used to dance and sing in their home communities when they were still carefree children.
Someone smuggled in strong ale and at the end when the rain that had been threatening
