The fine print of marriage

I hold Quinara close letting her recover from recounting her experience, she finally lets go and stops crying. "Sorry, I kind of killed the mood" she states, she wasn't wrong prior to her story I was at my peak and now I felt awful knowing she had to endure that. "Don't be... I understand how hard that was" I state not only enduring that but also sharing, she was putting trust in me and letting me see her **** and that wasn't something I would take lightly.

Quinara looks to the window, "I'm bound to him..." she says with deep sadness, "we're married and I cannot change that".

"Can you not get the marriage annulled?" I ask, now getting a marriage annulled was hard enough for human marriages especially for a woman but it was possible, however I didn't know how it would work for orcs. "No runt, orc marriages are for life and beyond, it's a pact with the gods so that in the afterlife we will be bound still.... That terrifies me, that when I die I'll be his to torment for eternity"

"Surely there's a way for that to be broken" I say not wanting her eternal fate to be with that monster. Quinara looks at me "well there is the rite of the paramour" she states. I didn't know what that is but if it would free her from her marriage I would do it for her, "ok what's that?" I ask filled with a sense of purpose.

"The rite of the paramour is a sacred orc rite, if someone wishes to be bound to a already married woman they can evoke this rite. Both men will grab their weapons and fight to the **** winner gets bound, that's the only way to annul an orc marriage" Quinara explains. Instantly my bravado and dreams of freeing her from her marriage vanish, knowing to do so I would have to win a fight to the **** with an orc. Quinara huffs clearly feeling done with this upsetting topic, "it's why I have to live what's left of my life to make it worthwhile" she says with determination, "and I think we should get to living".

Quinara gets up and offers me her hand which I accept, "so what's the plan for today?" I ask.

"I need to clear my head and we need supplies so we're going to the markets" she states laying out the plan for today.