Ash stalked out of the storehouse to talk matters over with his superior, while the other Mavijuto priests stayed to help move the altar. As it came out of the storehouse past Jade, she could see why the help was needed. This altar was more than three times the size of the one the obinas had desecrated last night, a huge oval mass of marble, carved with intricate designs by master craftsmen and polished so fine that even having sat unused in this storehouse for years, it still sparkled. It was so heavy it took eight Restaals to lift it onto the cart that was now transporting it out into the monastery, where it would be placed in the yard behind the dining hall. Westwind could certainly not complain that the Furgatos had provided his sect with a less than satisfactory altar, but the Furgat