>>5824684Thank you good sir.
>>5824706>>5824747What a happy man, heh !
>>5824768>>5824771>>5824947>>5825290Those were the days, between two banquets, tornaments and falconry hunts you were going to see a witch being burnt on the marketplace with your beloved. And now ? What has become of the world with all those novelties ? People read books ! Books, like monks ! Or even, in some distant lands I heard that they stare at glass pannels endlessly like maidens locked up in towers... I tell you this generation is lost, we are breeding men no better than women. The right to private war, that it what we need, if every landowner could defend his rights with men at arms we would be occupied by true chivalric activities.
>>5825575Seeing that brave priest here you decided to joke a bit before all, telling him with a huge smile on your face.
-I know you well father François, I know you well and something tells me that you have raised your cassock during those visits to the girl, and not only to find your holy texts !
You then began to laugh greatly while the man answered in an outraged tone.
-Messire Charles... Monseigneur... I would never...
-Heh, I know that she is very beautiful and I do not blame you...
-No, monseigneur, I would never have... She has been blessed and...
-Really ?
-Really messire Charles, I never touched her in this sense...
You were amazed at this display of piety, but to be sincere you teased him more than you believed him to be capable of seducing a young girl as easily. Of course he had authority, but he had a quite difficult physique and was more into a bit more mature women, often older married wives who chatted with him long enough into confession. So you patted him on the shoulder and you told him.
-Well, well, I believe you, I was simply jesting. By the way, we will burn the witch tomorrow, will you be able to offer her the last sacraments ?
He retorted you, bowing his head.
-Of course, such is my duty, even if, as a pagan, she will probably refuse. But if she does so, I shall encourage you to spare her.
-Spare her ? She has mistreated my future wife, and she killed three good men by magic.
-It is my duty as a clergyman to plead for mercy messire. But I understand you. Speaking of your dead men, one of them, Rollforini Tiativ, had recently been baptised. He is the first christian to die on this foreign land. I would want to bury it within the church, if his wife and kids agree with it of course.
You nodded, agreeing and telling.
-Yes, I ordered Captain Crumbling to give something to the families too, so they could bury the dead properly.
-Yes monseigneur, but the man had three kids, and I do not know if his wife alone could feed them. I would recommend you to give something for the stonemason, to have a stone cross instead of a wooden one. Since he is the first.
