While Bruno still knelt within the pews, Heidi had gone off on her own with her family. They returned to the Palace, where the family gathered to share lunch, tea, and their time together as a family.
However, Heidi was silently absent from today's gathering. She had her own thoughts to think about. For over forty years she had been attending mass with Bruno as his wife. The two of them had been inseparable in this life outside the confines of her husband's duty.
Since she was but two years old, Bruno had been protecting her. It was a hard thing to believe, considering he was roughly three years her senior. And yet it was true.
If not for Bruno, she likely would have died at the hands of court politics and their inherent cruelty long before she ever reached the age of marriage.
