Chapter sixteen
SuviWhen the people built temples for Milla’ray, and sacrificed oxen and lamb, She grew angry with them, saying, “The marriage of faith and ritual begets only narrow minded evil.”
Dr. Pamela Reading, Touching the Divine: Milla’ray
Life on the farm took on a pleasant rhythm, as winter shaded into spring. Suvi helped Jim and the others clear some land in the back of the barn, so they could plant potatoes and cabbage when the danger of frost had passed. The house itself was mostly derelict, and the ceiling leaked in a hundred places, but the kitchen and living room held enough warmth to be comfortable. Suvi slept in a shed attached to the kitchen, Jim with the rest of the men in the least leaky bedroom.
She had thought, when Jim first brought her there, that they would roo
