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"I’ll stay with her," said the nun

"Thank you, Sister" She hurried over to Hanna

"You’reher

"Co her ar down these steps I’ood to see you What news?"

Hanna waited to answer until they caarden Bees buzzed, and a fly pestered her until she swatted it away "The Council of Autun has voted to recognize the Redeht in her breath, but ht back your Da’s book, courtesy of the Holy Mother, who had copies made"

"The Holy Mother?"

"They elected Sister Rosvita Autun is to be the seat of the skopos For now She has lifted the writ of excommunication"

Liath stroked her pregnant belly "Thank God, for the child’s sake as well as ether later, so it can all be said at once Let randmother be awake to hear it"

"Is she well?"

"Very old, and very tired, but her mind remains clear She could die tomorrow, or five years fro as possible" She paused beside a rosebush to touch a blossom whose petals were saturated with crimson "Oh, look, another bloom"

A cohter and bodies flooding through the arched gate and out into the garden, fore them the prince