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Nu-nah was very beautiful and a Princess. But Sarthia was also

beautiful and the blood in her veins was royal, though of a

different branch from the present ruling House.

Nu-nah was cold and haughty, accustomed to rule and be obeyed.

Sarthia was humble externally, a Vestal of the Temple, but in her

mind and soul as imperious as a Queen of the realm of Heaven.

Passionately devoted to the pursuit of Wisdom and the

possibilities of obtaining knowledge, even Magic was open to her,

in the Temple Service. Could she leave her Temple home, her

opportunities for growth, her idolized Priestess, to go into the

environments of Nu-nah?

The thought seemed to her worse than death itself. "Every one has

to die," she mused, "and I may as well die one time as another."