[ She knows already, from his words and what she has experienced firsthand. Danger is the first person who he has trusted himself to be honest with... and that is a valuable thing. Something he cannot take for granted. She is important to him, in a way he has never felt another person to be.
He thinks for a moment, considering how to phrase his hypothesis, his thumb idly following the shape of her hipbone. ]
In my youth, I was an Executor of the Church; I killed men in the name of God. That duty, and that death, did not please me. However, years later and within another light, I found death... satisfying. In a way I did not before. It was a matter of the circumstance; of how the idea was approached.
I have known the love of no other woman save for my wife. Perhaps, Danger, my role as a husband, like my role as Executor, is not entirely faulted. It simply requires a change of situation -- a new light.
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[ She knows already, from his words and what she has experienced firsthand. Danger is the first person who he has trusted himself to be honest with... and that is a valuable thing. Something he cannot take for granted. She is important to him, in a way he has never felt another person to be.
He thinks for a moment, considering how to phrase his hypothesis, his thumb idly following the shape of her hipbone. ]
In my youth, I was an Executor of the Church; I killed men in the name of God. That duty, and that death, did not please me. However, years later and within another light, I found death... satisfying. In a way I did not before. It was a matter of the circumstance; of how the idea was approached.
I have known the love of no other woman save for my wife. Perhaps, Danger, my role as a husband, like my role as Executor, is not entirely faulted. It simply requires a change of situation -- a new light.