Love Letter

Juding by the splotches, tears were shed.

My beloved in Christ,

Thank you for last night. Every moment spent at your side, kneeling together in prayer, is more sacred than a hundred sermons. Your gentle presence, your ever-graceful touch, is a blessing in itself.

Yet, I confess, fear stirs in me. I do not doubt the wrath your husband would bring upon us if he ever learned of our union. I fear not for myself, but for you, and the shrine: a glimmer of hope in this shadowed valley he would surely stamp out.

Because of this, I must ask you one thing: let us not meet at the shrine again. Not now, not until the path is clear and the danger has passed.

In faith and longing,

Yours,

Grozav