"My mother did spoil him, yes. I do not intend to." But she will take good care of him, for her mother's sake. First the woman lost her husband, then her house and her dog. Christine is determined to make the separation as painless as possible.

Are they gossiping about Templars now? Oh, she likes this. Too many buried feelings on them over the long years of being locked up.

"They traded their clothes? Maker, I cannot imagine how they explained to their fellow Templars that they had nothing to wear but armor."