Marius's crime was witchcraft. He avoided, by virtue of his sex and his uncle's unwillingness to execute a male heir for a woman's crime, a slow death by burning. Veda would have been born on the wrong side of the blanket, unwanted by whatever man would take payment for absorbing the embarrassment of my scandal in marriage, and subject to the other consequence for witchcraft, which suffers not a witch's child to live lest they carry the taint of sin they were born from.
Her great-uncle would not have been so kind to about unwished for reminder of Marius. To bring her home with me would have been to sign her death warrant in my own hand.
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Date: 2019-11-27 02:55 am (UTC)Her great-uncle would not have been so kind to about unwished for reminder of Marius. To bring her home with me would have been to sign her death warrant in my own hand.