FORTY-FIVE
The only delay to their wedding was the townspeople's insistence on holding a wedding feast in their new Baron and Baroness's honour. They raided Vauquelin's camp, then took over the castle kitchens. Neither Bernard or Ursula uttered a protest.
Finally, as the sun set, Father Jacques led them in their marriage vows, and Ursula got to kiss her husband for the first time. She suspected from the whistles and catcalls that she might have gotten a little carried away, but she didn't care. These were her people, as much a part of Berehaven as she was. Or Bernard, now, who found himself the centre of attention at the feast. Everyone wanted to speak to the new Baron, and ask him how he'd managed to turn into a cave bear instead of the smaller brown bears the rest of them transformed
