A VOYAGE OVER THE POLE The discovery of our love had brought a crisis in our fate for me and Almah.

The Kohen hailed it with joy, for now was the time when he would be able to present us to the Kohen Gadol.

Our doom was certain and inevitable.

We were to be taken to the amir; we were to be kept until the end of the dark season, and then we were both to be publicly sacrificed.

After this our bodies were to be set apart for the hideous rites of the Mista Kosek.