She determined to ask for time off from her studies to visit them.
That morning she told her teacher of her dream and how it showed quite clearly that she was missing them.
He smiled.
‘I see you are an expert already,’ he said, and his voice was slightly mocking.
She decided not to rise to this and asked instead, politely, if she might have the day off work to visit them.
He did not give her a straight answer to this, but turned to the whole class and said, ‘This day there is a special ceremony, the inauguration of a new priest. We are expected to attend. We will take positions on the west of the avenue, half way between the Sanctuary and the Sacred Circle. When the procession has passed us, we will enter the avenue and follow it as far as the earth ring. It is our privilege to stand
