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Chapter 19

Other gods have touched her, too, in their own ways. She has never worried
that this might anger Korsgaard, but sometimes wonders what he thinks of it.
Ishuli, who she will forever be grateful to for her persistent questioning
and demands for logical interpretation of half-thoughts and feelings brought
on by dream visions. Rahsael, who guides and empowers Aurew, with his
reservoir of wisdom about Loss and hardship, and who appeared to her so
unexpectedly one day to give her his harrowing blessing. Daphedee, more
recently, who poured drinks and spoke to her and Jeunne of Gaspare Gnazzo and
of the past. She is no complete stranger to visits from the gods of darkness,
either: Emnon, hanging onto her every word in Maethien, and Morius, whose
church she finds the most anathema to the Pathfinder ways, who she rebuked
while he haunted her shadow in the Fortress itself.

She has begun to often think about the legacy that she might leave behind,
and is no longer troubled by the idea that victory over darkness might not be
something she lives to see. She knows deep within her soul that victory will
come, for she sees the light everywhere, and it brings her great peace. She
has centuries ahead of her, and intends to make the most of them...