practicality

"No, they know plenty - when people die, their spirits return to the Lifestream, to become one with the life force of the Planet." Her question brought him back to.the present. "I'm fine, I just had a thought. There's a dance that's part of our funeral rites. It's supposed to show the dead the path back to the Lifestream. I was apprenticed at the temple for a year when I was fifteen, right before I left for the city. Normally it would be done by a priest-mage, but ours was very old, and I was the best dancer, so I would do it, and he wouod fuel the spell." He sighed. "Its been twenty years since I've done it, though, and I'm not sure it would work with just my power."