Chapter 124

"But when the promise is emblazoned as an inscription upon the very soul, its keeping is guided by divine graces."

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The Caretaker's Cottage,

Betwixt the Kingdom of Tristendyre and the Hyll-Decantan Promontory,

Rainy Twilight,

Second Sunnight of the Second month,

Fiftieth Year of the Reign of Adon-Vericus IV

 

In Jehu's soul, the endless running had included the moment of covenant, in the rains, where he had visited, as a fleeting child, the graves that had been erected to their parents' names.

It was there, in the descending downpour, where he had sworn to bring the wickedness of their Government to its judgement and to protect his little sister that they had left with him.