"Our songs tell of service and honor … of firelight and kinship and blood and steel. They also tell of people who lived good lives and died in powerful ways. They tell of legacies." So speaks Corva, a member of a secretive pagan society known as the Thornish tradition. In this compelling narrative, she recounts the story of how she came to the Thornish path and the lessons she learned as she approached her initiation into the Thornish way. "What we do, we do for the sacred Earth and the Great Dark Mother is served not only through our acts in balance but also in teaching what we know. If we are to save our most sacred and beautiful world and the life- connections our world holds with so many other realities we need to further the education and awakening of as many worthies as we can. And to this act of reconnecting I will add my own voice."