>>5361037>>5361052"Do you perhaps recognize who I am?" You remove your helm to reveal your face, the hazel, sunken eyes paired with the bear claw scratched over your eyelid.
"...My apologies, but to my knowledge, I believe we have not met each other before."
No comment to your identity, not even a word of being a phantom, a member of the fallen Santana Estate. It's fair, you are far, far away from your place of origin, it's a bit too much for people to know you are wanted when you are outside of Midland territory. These are supposedly independent lord lands, no notable information should come that doesn't interest their nobles. You're closer to Vritannis than Midland either way...
"That's fine. Just making sure."
"Should I be worried of receiving a criminal in the house of the lord?"
"No, sir. I am merely a fallen noble, hoping to clear my name when reaching the Holy City. More importantly, I believe you were the one who made an attempt on my dear lover's life, weren't you?"
"...Correct. It was a behavior that should be uncharacteristically of an authority figure such as myself. Even if she pointed a knife towards me, I should have known how to de-escalate the situation without resorting to the violence the people of Enoch are tired of seeing."
"Were you not impeded, all three of you would have been pushed off the roof."
"If only I knew that the ones that we prayed to were the same 'archangels' that the witch prostrated to. The shrine that was build under our church, apparently was named after a lady of the depths. Since we prayed for the angles for our water supply to keep itself from drying up... The effect was the same as praying to her."
"The spirits are a lot more accepting than you might believe."
"Indeed. With the money I still have from the previous tithes, I plan to build a shrine in honor of this lady of the water. In the western corner of this plaza. It seems I forgot tolerance was the crucial of God's teachings. To destroy different believes and cultures is to invite others to do the same to your own."
"A lesson that most have forgotten. Cultural wars make people forget the basic principals of empathy to strangers by the most mindless of superficial differences."
>Wouldn't it be best to give that money to the people in need?>How much do you need for the statue to be made? I'd like to make a contribution.>I can pay for the statue's construction. Use your savings to aid the villagers instead.>Write-in.