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“What is it,voice “You are very troubled—I can see it in your eyes and smell it in your scent What burdens you?”
“Grandris, I have broken my vow!”
Rarev had radually, but the words burst froh the shaeyser that must erupt or it would consume him
“What’s that you say?” Grandris frowned, her blue eyes filled with concern “I do not understand”
“I took a vow before the statue of the Goddess to never call a bride until all the other Monstrum had called theirs,” Rarev explained “Instead, I have Claimed a female before any of my people has had a chance to I have broken my vow—I am deeply shamed”
He fell to his knees before the old priestess, hanging his head in abject ine the disappointris’s blue eyes—he didn’t want to see it there So he kept his own eyes down on the ground, not looking at her
“I see” The ancient priestess’s voice was steady and calm “And so now you seek absolution?”
“I have come to ask…ask that you dissolve the bond I have for and hoarse in his own ears “Either that, or you nation and I race”
“Warrior, look at ris demanded
With a heavy heart, Rarev turned his face up to hers
“Yes, Grandris?” he asked hoarsely
“What you ask is a heavy thing indeed A soul-bond, once formed, should never be dissolved And you are the one the Goddess herself chose to be the leader of our people I do not believe either option you mention would benefit the Monstrum as a whole”
“But I have broken reat shame—there must be consequences!”
“Let me look into your heart,” the priestess demanded “Close your eyes and open yourself to me”
Rarev steeled hiers—so old the fur had been worn fro a priestess to “look into” one, was never a comfortable experience But he knew better than to refuse Grandris
He closed his eyes, feeling her rifling through his memories of the past few days His time with Emilia was laid bare—as were his deep e the reasons why they could not be together He was certain that when she was finished, she would come to the same conclusion that he had himself
So he was surprised when she stepped back and said,