They had barely crossed the border, still raw from the queen and the empty altar, when a whirlwind came down on the road and took off the horse and was gone before could turn.
The timing is the point. One chapter ago a queen offered the monk marriage sincerely and was refused and tricked and left grieving. Now, a single day's walk later, a demon offers the monk marriage by force, and the book puts the two women back to back so you cannot miss the mirror: the same want, the honest version and the monstrous one, the woman who asked and the woman who takes.
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