03-25-2022, 04:15 PM
Ah. So she had a potential suitor, but not one that necessarily suited her. It was an understandable concern.
Malachi gestured to the nearest pew, "please, sit."
He moved to seat himself, taking the moments in-between to consider the situation more thoroughly.
(Had his father still been around, he knew what he would have suggested at the mention of inheritance. Leave the priesthood, Mal, he would've said, it's time. As if his father would have cared for anything but the estate.)
"It is rather unfortunate that you've been given such a time limit, when you have not yet found someone you care for," he agreed. "This gentleman, is he kind? Does he seem like the kind of man that would take care of you?"
Malachi gestured to the nearest pew, "please, sit."
He moved to seat himself, taking the moments in-between to consider the situation more thoroughly.
(Had his father still been around, he knew what he would have suggested at the mention of inheritance. Leave the priesthood, Mal, he would've said, it's time. As if his father would have cared for anything but the estate.)
"It is rather unfortunate that you've been given such a time limit, when you have not yet found someone you care for," he agreed. "This gentleman, is he kind? Does he seem like the kind of man that would take care of you?"
