title: Renna's Sacrifice
author: Gardner, Bernadette
description: * * * *   5,600 word short story / previously published * * * *
  Longing for freedom from her cloistered existence, Renna roams the moonlit hillsides where she meets Benar, an acolyte from the Temple of the Sun God. When her destiny is revealed, she is faced with a terrible choice: Defy the ancient rites and plunge her ordered world into chaos, or give up the man she loves and sacrifice herself to another.
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