"Rosie and Tonnis Pyre," Ashlynn said without waiting for Hugo to respond. "Evidently, my husband felt betrayed by Sir Tommin's choice to join the Templars after he buried me in the wilderness. He wanted Tommin to watch his family suffer and die in the cruelest way he could imagine while the Church was helpless to save them. Perhaps he thought it would break Sir Tommin's faith," Ashlynn said, shaking her head at Owain.
Sitting at the Blackwell table, High Priest Aubin shuddered at the thought of what it would have done to a man as devout and troubled as Sir Tommin to learn that his family had suffered such a cruel fate as retribution for leaving his lord's side.
