The King's Brightest Star
“This is my daughter, Ellis.”
A baby had been named after her.
Merc told his own story next, how he had joined the Purists in outrage over what seemed to be happening in his church and he had believed Mitch when he said Ellis had given birth to the children of someone other than the Emperor. Merc had not had a religious epiphany when Ellis knelt next to him and carefully dabbed at his wound, but he had been moved by her compassion, moved that she would run through a mob, barefoot on the icy, rough ground, to help someone who had just been screaming slurs at her. He ended by repeating his statement that if she wasn't a Goddess herself, she was certainly a gift from Her.
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