No one in the Great Hall knew what to say or think about what they'd just seen and heard. The High Priest had knelt to the Marchioness and pledged to help her make up for a century of wrongs committed by the Church and the Lothian family, even if it meant defying the Holy City to do so.
There was no precedent for this, no parallel that could be compared to. Even those like Liam Dunn and Tulori Leufroy who had been educated in the academies of Keating, Trevarthan or the Royal Capital of Gaalen, with all their years of study and worldly experience, couldn't recall a moment like this one.
The shock grew greater still for people like Adala Leufroy, who was already piecing this act of defiance together with Lady Ashlynn's decision to execute the Inquisition's abbot and to imprison so many of his Inquisitors afterward.
