>>5441538>>5441464>>5441265>>5441247>>5441246>>5441209>>5441145>Encourage the soldiers in their worship of Sedjet. Make a special effort to support them in their fights against the enemy. Reignite their love for those they fight for (and for Sedjet of course).>Go to the front and compel the enemy to lay down arms by your Love, and then heal any injured on both sides.Encouraging worship among the mortals of a different, foreign god, yourself no less? If their superiors ever find out, what trouble that would be! Though you have no need of worship, some amount of pride or vanity is present in every god, so devotion is pleasing to you much the same as a compliment. Personally though, it also feels like a little way of getting back at the mortals who thought they could impose rules upon you, by acting in ways they wouldn't approve of and sowing dissent in their faith. Just a little fun, as far as a goddess is concerned.
As for your dutiful paladin, you're not sure you need to seduce him for loyalty, unless you further desire him as a lover (or simply wish to make use of him that way). He's already loyal enough that he aids and abets you in breaking the rules, and he'd do most of what you asked him. Only when faced with direct opposition to his faith would he waver, so to cross that line seduction may be necessary, but you're not sure you'd ever need for him to cross that line. Thus far there hasn't been anything that a touch of the hand or a kiss to the cheek couldn't accomplish, with good Sir Tyne.
Though seduction or not, you'd hoped he would have been able to help you with your desire to reach the front line of the war.
<span class="mu-r">"Please allow me to accompany the soldiers, I could do more good with them beyond the walls."</span>
<span class="mu-s">"Sorry miss, but you're too important. Think if anything bad should happen to you out there... no, we can't think of it!"</span>
<span class="mu-r">"-but all the lives I could save..."</span>
Well you tried asking nicely, and Tyne even tries to speak in your support, but in disappointment you are refused. From both noble and commoner alike. Naturally the ruling House doesn't want to let you go, much less risk your life. But the soldiers as well, have too much appreciation and fondness for you to risk taking you with them... as much as they would love to have you along. Like their own little saint, surely the morale you bolstered would collapse if you were wounded, captured, or killed.
Of course you know that no such risk exists, but the mortals continue to assume you are just another mortal woman, in danger of such things. Perhaps they would have Sedjet along with them to battle, but surely not Zafira the Menaj girl. And though it pains anyone to deny you, no one's wish to cause you upset, the love for you is outweighed by the worry for your safety. Or rather than outweighed, that worry is out of love, so it's a case of your own domain getting the better of you!
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