Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

ceremonies, and specifically the training for religiousceremonies, something that was dear to Koruki’s heart. Avatold her about seminaries and monasteries, concepts she knewwell. She never asked, and Ava never seemed to get home theconcept that the essential difference was that Koruki lived ina healthy and thriving civilization, while Ava lived in theruins of a former one. Yellelle even tried to makecomparisons with things Koruki knew. Koruki had been intothe heaven of the future, as far as the invasion of themainlanders and the corruption of the Goddess.Koruki patted Ava’s hand and expressed sympathy. “She’stalking about the cycle of history going round and round,”Yellelle told her.They spent another hour going over Ava’s history, thenthe next going over a brief introduction to their religion,especially as it applied to the ceremony of the bull. It was thepre-science Elven religion from Alan’s world with a few morereligious symbols and the intercourse with temple girlsthrown in, not that there weren’t examples of that in Alan’sworld.“Is Alan part of what you’re doing to me?” she askedYellelle.“What does Alan have to do with this?”“That religion, basically the worship of Mother Nature, isan important one in the history of Alan’s world.”“He probably got it from here. There was some431