My Beloved
“Juliana asked.
He turned his head, thinking that it was time the question had finally come. They had stopped for the midday meal, and she sat beside him.
He broke off a piece of bread from his loaf. All of his food was kept carefully separated, a precaution that seemed advisable. He chewed idly as he concentrated on his answer.
He drew up one leg, propped his wrist upon it, looked homeward toward Langlinais. “There is something there I find I need.” It was the easiest answer.
“We are betrayed a...nd are dying. The siege has lasted too many months and we cannot survive much longer. In the love I bore you, I beg of you to come.”
The words Magdalene had written him were emblazoned in his memory. He had not been in time to save her. To save any of them. Yet, he’d discovered that she had not summoned him in order to be rescued, but for another purpose.
His life had changed from that day. His beliefs, sacrosanct and immutable, had been challenged. Even today, he did not know if he accepted what he had found, or simply recognized its potential for destruction.MoreLess
He turned his head, thinking that it was time the question had finally come. They had stopped for the midday meal, and she sat beside him.
He broke off a piece of bread from his loaf. All of his food was kept carefully separated, a precaution that seemed advisable. He chewed idly as he concentrated on his answer.
He drew up one leg, propped his wrist upon it, looked homeward toward Langlinais. “There is something there I find I need.” It was the easiest answer.
“We are betrayed a...nd are dying. The siege has lasted too many months and we cannot survive much longer. In the love I bore you, I beg of you to come.”
The words Magdalene had written him were emblazoned in his memory. He had not been in time to save her. To save any of them. Yet, he’d discovered that she had not summoned him in order to be rescued, but for another purpose.
His life had changed from that day. His beliefs, sacrosanct and immutable, had been challenged. Even today, he did not know if he accepted what he had found, or simply recognized its potential for destruction.MoreLess
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