Chapter 15Eppie hesitated a moment before she left. The elders looked frail and tired as they witnessed Darna’s agony. She wondered if Myril wouldn’t just come on her own – surely she would have heard Darna’s cries – but Raina would not have heard, and Darna had asked for her. She wondered how many of the elders knew that Iola had stayed on the surface of the earth, and if all the helpers streaming in for Darna would be able to keep up the deception, or if Iola would simply stay out of sight until after the sun rose. Midwinter dawn was close. Eppie swallowed hard and set out.
Myril was probably on her way already, Eppie told herself, but her place was on the way to the West Gate and Raina’s farm. Halfway across the peresi’s courtyard, Eppie paused to strip off her priestess robes and bund
