chapter six : the darkness our lives became a simple routine : we were woken each moonrise by the snarling face of aiilyn ; we made our beds and followed her outside the room , where we were allowed to relieve ourselves ; we ate ; we were taken to fal and a string of other paecsies and tasked with cleaning work that took us from the highest dizzying heights of the bower to the deep corners of the caverns underneath where the urden lived .