Chapter 322: 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.
"But then you would have to move away from a town you are so familiar with to here where there is no one around you. When you need supplies, you will need to travel for a few hours to get to a town," Annalise reminded him.
Life near the border wasn’t wonderful because there wasn’t a nearby town or other homes since no one wanted to live where there was war.
"You should know me well by now, Annalise. I am not exactly fond of being around too many people. Here it doesn’t seem like a bad place to build a new manor. With the knights here, there would be no attacks. It is the only solution we have right now," Rafael said, believing it would work.
The Callahan knights were becoming bigger each year and since the manor was already meant to be expanded, why not start fresh here?
Annalise didn’t like this idea because Rafael wanted to pick up his life and come here just so they wouldn’t have to travel far when they wanted to see each other. "I think we should think of other ways-"
"Are you going to have your people leave their homes to come to where I am, Annalise?" Rafael cut in, bringing light to how many people she would have to make move." There is no other way for us to be near each other, to one day live with each other unless one of us moves, and it is just better for me to move. I can ensure there won’t be conflict at the border. I see no issue with me moving."