#TimeTravelingGhost EP 10: Post 101: 1191, Nicosia, Cyprus
#Wss366 vouch #TimeTravelAuthors 05/23. Saturday excerpt (optional word: rescue/save)
When we reached the top of the stairs, the scholar gestured to the left and stopped in front of a door. “The Delphinas’ are charitable. I must, however, look after my charge’s virtue. Do you have someone who can #vouch for you?”
“There is a monk at St. George’s Shrine,” I said. “I don’t know his name, but he can speak for me. And of course…” I reached into my robe and was relieved to feel a parchment I had just manifested. “A letter of introduction,” I said.
I proffered the missive to the man, and he glanced at it before returning it.
“I am humbly grateful for your master’s hospitality and will impose as little as possible,” I said. “I must leave tonight for the shrine. As Christ is my witness, you don’t need to worry about my bringing harm to the household.”
“You are a Frank?” The implications of the question hung in the air.
I touched a strand of blond hair that had escaped my cowl. “I am. There is a small community of us in Marseilles.”
“Then you are lucky to come so close to hearing the true word. Better an Egyptian Christian than a Latin. The Franks are Christians, but have strayed far; barbarians. Pray that Theotokos will guide your path to the full truth.”
“I will, brother, and that you may be #saved.”
With those sparring words between individuals of divergent faiths, we parted. My story had held up.
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