For several minutes, Rosie sat on the bed, cradling her son and trying to navigate the knot in her heart to find a way to answer Saintess Ashlynn's question. She tried, several times, to think of the words she would write and imagined her husband reading them, but each time she imagined it, she couldn't imagine him putting aside his holy sword simply because she'd asked him to.
"I'm sorry, your Dominion," Rosie finally said after spending a long time lost in thought. "Tommin, he, he turned his back on Tonnis and me in favor of his faith. You may not know this, but he took Piety as one of his virtues when he became a knight, and Righteousness as well. The Holy Lord of Light is more important to him than we are," she said bitterly.
