Templar Trilogy 1: Knights of the Black and White by Jack Whyte

Author:Jack Whyte
Language: en-us
Format: mobi
Tags: Historical, Action & Adventure, Fiction
ISBN: 9780143017363
Publisher: Penguin Books Canada, Limited
Published: 2007-07-31T04:00:00+00:00

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KNIGHTS OF THE BLACK AND WHITE

When it was done, she simply left, and Grosbec stood gazing after her, his face drained and haggard.

After thinking about all that had occurred in those few moments, Alice not only understood what had happened but she also grasped, intuitively, the dynamics of the in-terplay between the two that had been so baffling to her before. Grosbec was a watcher, and she knew what that entailed. Even at her young age, she saw nothing shocking in the revelation that Bishop Grosbec was sexually active. Licentious clerics were everywhere, and no one thought anything about it. The only unusual element in what she had learned was that the bishop was a watcher.

Alice knew another watcher, a boy living in her father’s enclave, a strange character two, perhaps three years older than she was, who liked to watch while other people did those things, and Alice had once watched him as he pleasured himself openly while they did. She had asked about him later, and discovered that he had absolutely no desire to share the act with a girl. His friends laughed at him because of it and called him names, but he made no attempt to change. He enjoyed watching people copulating, and made no secret of it or of how it excited him, and Alice had been surprised to hear how many people encouraged him and even seemed to enjoy having him watch them as they did it. Grosbec, Alice now knew, was a watcher, but more important than simply knowing that, she now realized that Morfia knew it, too, and was using the knowledge for her own purposes.

Three days after that, the clerics brought down their judgment, ruling in Morfia’s favor, and she and Gros-

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