•Sophia took the piece of fresh
wood from Caliban and gently pushed it into the pile of ash and
coals she banked the night before. She gently blew on the wood and
fanned a quick flame that she fed slowly and carefully, “You must
learn to do this exactly as I have. The fire cannot go out.”
•“Why not? Can’t you
just start it again yourself?”
•“To light a home’s
hearth fire from anything except a fire lit from the temple flame
would be a sacrilege.”
•“To them but not to
us.”