"Saintess…"
The word slipped past Aubin's lips before he intended to speak, but the moment he said it, he realized it must be the truth.
"No wonder," he muttered. "No wonder a High Inquisitor follows her so loyally… No wonder the Templars joined with her…"
Two saints led the Church of the Holy Lord of Light, and it had been that way since the earliest days of the Church in honor of the Great Prophet and the Saint Teacher. Ever since the founding of the Kingdom of Gaal, one of those saints dwelled in the Holy City in Gaal, and the other remained across the sea in the old countries, each presiding over the faithful of half the world.
But in the oldest of teachings, in sealed records available only to men of Aubin's lofty position or those who stood above him, the Great Prophet had written that there would be others walking the world.
