With a bit of gentle coaxing, the High Priest was able to convince Jocelynn to allow the Sisters of Light to tend to Eleanor's remains. The group of women was exceptionally careful with the body of the fallen Confessor, treating her with the same reverence they would show their own mothers or grandmothers as they worked with soft cloths and gentle soaps to wash the filth of the world from her body, preparing her to pass from this life to the next.
The High Priest didn't know Eleanor well, but she visited the Temple regularly since her arrival in Lothian March, particularly after Jocelynn returned to the city from the Summer villa. That was why it had been such a shock to him to see her body reduced to a withered husk, as though every last bit of vitality had been stripped from her.
