Begin

Book 5 of What Was Ordained.

She comes back — not as a girl who was never split, but as a woman who will not call hiding humility. Church again. Christ as the faith presents Him. The ache is still there. So is the design. She refuses lifelong celibacy as the last word and begins, slowly, to seek what was ordained: attraction to a man in body and in soul, not as a magic fix, as a chosen thaw. The path is frost and sunrise. The temple is far. She walks.