Lord Jules Lihin
Jourd'Juno, 29th Decima
Jules and Rosa had been camped out on the foothills of the Blood Mountains for just over a sevenday when Ghia and Thadea finally caught them up.
The sevenday had been awkward, to say the least, though he and the Magi had finally gotten into a bit of a rhythm. They still weren't that close, for all he was married to Rosa's grandniece. Great-grandniece. Great-great-great-great-great...he lost count. A lot of greats came before grandniece, in this case -- three-hundred years' worth.
When Ghia had learned all the details of her past -- leastwise, all that Rosa knew and could tell her -- she'd immediately told her betrothed. In fact, since the end of the war they'd told each other everything, as if keeping secrets might cause one another's death. Had
