The Reverend Mother Superior sighed. «Thou hast been a Six for five years now, Marcos, and yet still thou hast not risen to Seven. I used to be disappointed in Pureza for having foolishly allowed her own Master to survive when she was already his better, and then again when he died yet she did not claim the position of Eight, but at least she rules her Temple with none above her! While thou festerest in thy own 'ignominy.’»