SHORT STORY of WARD COURIER: The Designer's Tale: "The Palatine Lion," Continued

From the unpublished novel "The Roycroft Tales" (c) 2001 by Ward Courier under the pen name Mason Winfield

"But maybe it's something else. Maybe there's a price paid when some of us, when a master, ascends without physically dying. Maybe some of us who are very, very good ascend, but we don't become purified unless a part of us is shed, the part of us that is bad - impulsive, ...