THE INSIGHT

It',s far too dangerous. A girl would almost have to be running for her life to travel to Athira on a rickety air-ship so early in the Spring. And for that girl to be the high-born daughter of a Guild archon, nearing her seventeenth birthday, and thus womanhood...it',s unthinkable. But Evelyn Cross is running for her life. The attacks of mental darkness that leave her raving and incoherent have grown strong in the last few weeks, and the Guild doctors', diagnosis is firm--they intend to end her ",suffering", for good. So, she is running to the isle of Athira where the Old Practitioners still wield their magic, the curious Sarpeshans see into others', thoughts, and the mysterious Chera loom in the imagination. Here there is an abbey