Chapter 11
The Lifting of the ShadowWhen Kyra returned to her body she was quick to look for Deva, in spite of great weariness.
When she could find her nowhere near her home, or the Temple, she was filled with alarm and went straight to the haunted mound, remembering that it was there that Deva had sacrificed to Groth, and there that she had ‘lived’ as a shade for so long before her present incarnation.
She found the girl unconscious once again, the ceremonial knife beside her, bleeding from both wrists.
Her face as pale as her daughter’s, Kyra tore strips from her own gown and bound the arms so that the bleeding would stop.
‘O child, when will you learn?’ she wept, and gathered the limp body in her arms.
Khu-ren, informed by Lea of Kyra’s whereabouts, found them there and carried De
