Mine is yours

Looking back at the golden lion seal in his hand, a small smile played on Canillas' lips. As he observed it once again, he found a red stain on the head and legs of the proud sitting lion.

His memory brought him back to when he saw that filthy man with a blood-drenched face that prevented her from approaching him and left a scar on her that night.

"Why didn't you use your dagger?" asked Canillas, remembering that she had told him that she kept her dagger with her every time she was out of her home. She even used it to make him stop doing what a husband could do to his wife when they were in the deep forest—the second time he encountered her, but it would be forever engraved in his mind.

"I couldn't bring it with me because of the royal protocol," Joanna answered.