By Any Other Name by Kate King
Author:Kate King [King, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wicked Good Romance
Published: 2024-01-22T00:00:00+00:00
Professor Abramâs office is on the ground floor at the end of a maze of twisting halls, nowhere near the classroom Iâm used to seeing him in. His door is open, but I knock on the frame, anyway, more out of habit than manners.
He looks up from where heâs sitting at his huge, dark oak desk, and jumps. âRoman. I donât think I was expecting you. Did you have a question about the lecture?â
âHi.â I take a step into the room. âNo, you werenât. Do you have a sec?â
Professor Abram is an average man in pretty much every way. Average build, average height, neither attractive nor particularly unattractive. He dresses like Iâd expect a professor to dress, usually in tweed and carrying some sort of scuffed leather briefcase. He smiles as I walk in, and pushes his glasses up the bridge of his nose. âSure, what can I do for you?â
I glance at the open door. âCan I shut this?â
âAllow me.â Abram draws a half-circle in the air, causing the door to swing shut, and frowns as I sit down. âIs this about your paper, because it was fine.â
âI need your advice,â I say slowly. âOr, opinion, I guess.â
He raises his eyebrows. âAbout school?â
âNo.â
âWhatâs going on?â
I pause for a moment, wishing Iâd planned better how to ask for what I wantâwhat Etta and I agreed I would ask him.
I know that Professor Abram is in the Order. Heâs not part of one of the founding families, but you donât have to be to practice. In this case, his lack of ties to any of the founding families is exactly why I want to talk to him. Abram knows who we are. He knows who Etta is. Heâs a theology professor and a member of the Order, so heâll know how all the rituals work, and best of all I actually like him, which is more than I can say for 80% of the rest of this miserable damn town.
âIs Councilman Lawrence the only person who can perform a handfasting?â
His eyebrows raise. âWhy?â
âJust, in theory.â
âNo. Not if both parties were already members of the Order.â
My eye twitches slightly. This, right here, is the entire purpose of this conversation. A marriage ceremonyâbonding, handfasting, whatever you want to call itâand an induction into the Order are not synonymous, yet they often get lumped together because, as far as I know, you do need to be pledged to marry another Order member.
It would be possible to have a bonding in secret and then announce to our families that it was simply too late to stop it, but not to have a secret pledging. The council would need to be involved in that.
âWhat if one or both of theâ¦erâ¦couple wasnât pledged?â
His eyebrows disappear into his hairline. âRoman, what is this about?â
âJust, theoretically. What then?â
âTheoreticallyâ¦â Abram considers, and I know he doesnât believe this is hypothetical. âThe handfasting would amount to nothing more than a spiritual marriage. Like a human ceremony. Which might be fine if thatâs what you were intending.
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