The as-yet-unnamed castle, when Martel first arrives there with his scars and his exhaustion and his inability to lay down, doesn't strictly speaking have a chapel. It doesn't strictly speaking have much of anything, in fact, being only more years of abandonment away from being a ruin. The chapel, though, is more of a specific lack; the former ( Read more... )

Martel has work to do--which beyond honing skills left long untouched, he hasn't been able to say in all seriousness for some time. It's been chafing, this lack of purpose, and he's quietly pleased with himself for finding one. A direction of his own, simple as it is. Maria will reacquire his money from where he'd left it in Eosia, he'll buy the ( Read more... )