After a while he said, “This isn’t far from what I was taught as a boy on Roke: that true magery lies in doing only what you must do. But this would go further. Not to do, but to be done to. . . .” “I don’t think that’s quite it. It’s more like what true doing rises from. Didn’t you come and save my life—didn’t you run a fork into Hake? That was ‘doing,’ all right, doing what you must do. . . .” He pondered again, and finally asked her, “Is this a wisdom taught you when you were Priestess of the Tombs?” “No.” She stretched a little, gazing into the darkness. “Arha was taught that to be
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