A moment alone (3)

"Do you really have an answer to how we wouldn't have to travel back and forth to see each other? I don't want you to stop being the commander to come here and I can't leave my father to find someone else to lead after him. I was hoping to put off this conversation for a while, but now it is starting to worry me about what we should do," said Annalise.

She needed to hear his plan so she could finally put an end to her worrying about it. 

"I don't plan on stepping down from commander soon and you won't have to deny becoming leader. I will ask the king to give me land close to the border to build a new manor for the Callahan knights to reside. I will give up the land he recently bestowed upon me behind the manor. That is the only answer," Rafael replied, looking around at the land which he might see as home in the future.