Kire listened to Sireen explain what had happened to her sister. A dream of a forest, and the Goddess. That made sense in relation to what had just happened in Amria, though having an [i]actual[/i] forest spring up was something else. [i]A priestess of the temple…[/i]  Ruli repeated her questions, and Sireen described a ritual that spited the Moon God. [i]Sounds about right,[/i] she thought, seeing the glance Ruli threw her way. 

“Did the Goddess keep many priests or priestesses? Did everyone in Ziad worship her, or had there been people who left or were cast out?” she asked. “And did you keep sacred texts, any writing of that sort?”