Vows postponed

 The following evening Rosalina received a letter from her betrothed. He told her that the war campaign would take quite some time and he asked her to stay faithful and wait for him. She did not know how to respond. She could not bring herself to tell him that she was looking forward to the marriage and that she would be willing to wait as long as it would take. She actually hoped that this would make her father change his mind and find her someone closer to where she was happy. Instead he encouraged her to respond to the letter and start looking forward to marrying this man. Edmund and Maximo tried to intervene on her behalf over the next few days but Fenris would not budge. 

Rosalina's emerald eyes grew dull and more and more the shadowed as the days and weeks passed. Few things brought her joy. She spent all of her time with the children. Maximo and Bethany had great concern for the young lady