Chapter 23Imorren gazed around in wonder. This must surely have been brought about by the Anointing.
All study, all calculation, all experiment to determine the precise consequences of the Anointing foundered eventually in tangled infinities and improbabilities. More than one Higher Brother had taken refuge in insanity as a result of Imorren’s relentless drive to negotiate this shrieking intellectual vortex. More than one anonymous vagrant had perished as a result of her experiments. Yet she would not even allow the whispering of that growing consensus that the consequences were, by definition, unknowable.
‘You are flawed,’ she would say. ‘Your faith is weak. Try harder.’
All that was known for certain was that the Anointing would reach across those regions whose ultimate description de
