Chapter 13 Forgiveness Summary

In the final chapter, the events concentrate around the character of Shedemai and her School of Rasaro. We discover that Shedemai still feels pangs of loneliness, and this is tempered by her increasing yearning to stay among the people of Earth and continue running the School of Rasaro and its attendant sub-schools. In her conversations with the Oversoul, the Oversoul asks her why she wants to stay and whether the small frustrations of life are annoying her. Shedemai realizes that the small frustrations of life are all exactly what the Keeper of Earth itself is involved in - they are the little things that tie the people together.

Voorzhum, formerly Uss-Uss, the slave of Edhadeya, comes to Shedemai's office and tries to cajole her into revealing that she really is the Shedemai of ancient legend, a fact that Shedemai will not...