Benedict walked away from Warin and back to the garden path with a heavy heart. The parting only got more difficult. The more time spent with Warin, the more Benedict wanted.
For all his youth, and perhaps a touch of naiveté he admitted to himself, Benedict was not foolish enough to believe they would simply be allowed to spend the rest of their days together in peace. Love between men, though it existed, was a terrible sin to the church and illegal in the eyes of the king and kingdom. If caught, Warin would be most certainly executed. And perhaps even Benedict might face such a future.
But even if he had to spend his remaining days fleeing those who would end his love with Warin, he would do so.
Benedict stopped and listened just before the garden gate that would take him back into the
