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Chapter 9

What is her answer?

"For a few seconds, she doesn't respond..."

For a few seconds, she doesn't respond, while you grow ever more angry that she actually has to think about this, but then she opens her mouth and calms you back down.

"My training would tell me the high priest, BUT the more I think about it the more wrong that seems. The high priest has not received a blessing of resurrection from Lorchos, no one has but you, and you can commune directly with your father can you not? The High priest must officiate at a major ritual on one of the high holy days which takes months of preparation to set up in order to do that. All in all, it is clear to me who outranks who in Lorchos estimation, and it is you who is favored by him." Integral says with a quiet reverence, realizing that she has just lain with a man who is favored above all others by the god she worships.

"Very well then." You say, trying not to sound as relived as you felt that she had picked rightly. "As your god's favored servant I command you to gather your things and leave this temple with me, I will not be tied down and used as a glorified stud horse by anyone's priesthood, leave be my father's! We are going to quit this place and flee from those who have turned their back on Lorchos will, we will train and level up, and when we are ready we will return and show them all whom is the true lord of this faith, not the traitor who commands me pick a concubine, but the father of the person who now commands you to go away with him!" You state, doing your best to sound authoritative and majestic.

"Gladly." Integral states, beginning to empty the chest of drawers and pack up her things. You honestly had expected some resistance even with what she had said, but you will not look a gift horse in the mouth, and don her discarded ritual robe, even as she puts on a flexible black leather ensemble which you feel compliments her shape much better than the robe did.

Is there any trouble escaping the church?

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