Victory(1)
Back on the Mainland, in the silence that followed the Bishop's announcement, Jonah had not known where to look.
It had taken all that he was capable of to hide the emotions that threatened to appear on his face, so he had tried to forget that they even existed while looking at the commanders to see their individual reactions.
He had been hearing a few rumors of late that all the high-ranking commanders of the army actually knew that he was not as loyal to the Church as was to be believed. He had dismissed them, though, because his situation would have been so much worse if that were the case, but now, he saw that there was some truth in them.