The dreadful thought occurred to me that were the girl alive that would make it much easier to bring her along with us. For the sake of sweet Opaz rather than any Makki Grodno curse! Corruption can eat the soul.
That thought, banal though it was, brought me to a fresh realization of the cunning lethality of the punishment given to the Accursed. Surely, the idea must have gone, a person can commit enough sins in one lifetime to make hazardous their entry into Gilium. How much harder, therefore, to enter Gilium having to run the gauntlet of a hundred lifetimes open to all the sinful temptations that will drag the sinners down to the Death Jungles of Sichaz.
To keep her mind occupied in something other than fretting over the hazardous task that lay before us, Mevancy began to ask Caspar the
