It occurred to him that these rescued priests might some day be useful.
Alan followed her through a kind of swing door which opened into another of the endless halls, but when he looked for her there she was nowhere to be seen.

A priest who was waiting beyond the door bowed and informed him that the Asika had gone to her own place, and would see him that evening.

Then bowing again he led them back by various passages to the room where they had slept.
"Jeekie," said Alan after their food had been brought to them, this time, he observed, by men, for it was now past midday, "you were born in Asiki-land; tell me the truth of this business.

What does that woman mean when she talks about her spirit having been here from the beginning." "She mean, Major, that every time she die her soul go into someone else, whom priests find out by marks.

Also Asika always die young, they never let her become old woman, but how she die and where they bury her, no one know 'cept priests.