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Duncan! Ahah! Dissension among the ranks. Or just stupid blind ambition.

Whether we die as weans or live on to reach a great age, our earthly lives amount to little more than a teardrop in time. If we do not love one another truly and well whilst we are here, what then is the point of it all?

Aye, I named Alasdair after his da, only ‘tis the Scots version, mind. My husband was Alexander.

I didn’t know those were equivalents or corresponding names. 🤯

‘Tis only the Lord’s plans that go unchallenged, my lady. Mortal men and women must accept what Providence decrees.

Hear, hear.

Chapter 2 takes place 10 years later.

Did they miss the seven year mark when they were supposed to get married?

So that makes Brianna ~24 & Ewan ~22?

Aha. So Brianna is about to enter her fourteenth year, in 1450.

So Ewan is close to or already 12?

Ewan & Brianna met as adolescents - he is two years younger than she is.