Enya Alchin

Before Enya returned, Tarmin would sometimes meet up with his friends to enjoy some silly games or a little gambling.

There, he often heard the married men grumbling about their lives.

Stories of building their fortunes under the city's protection, finding a spouse, and starting a family.

Since marrying before they were old enough meant they had inherited a shop or some other property, most of their complaints were dismissed as privileged whining.

Even so, Gale from the cloth shop would act high and mighty around the unmarried men, insisting that marriage wasn't about getting a woman into bed and going on about things like responsibility and duty.

Back then, Tarmin couldn't understand Gale, who said you'd never know unless you tried marriage, yet did his best to explain all its downsides to bachelors.

Was he telling them to get married or not?

And now, Tarmin felt he couldn't understand Gale for an entirely different reason.

‘His wife being so forward is a burden? How could that be anything but adorable?’

In a word, Enya looked lovely...