Aveena was touched, and a bit wounded to see someone else revere her master so highly.
She tried to press the old monk a bit for more back story behind the two elders; just to hear an old story about the woman who she had only ever known as a master.
But the old man seemed to need more than a moment before he could open up about his relationship with the former Abbess.
Though he did admit that the two were very much in love at one point. But neither of them could get past certain obvious cultural barriers. The world just wasn't changing fast enough.
And so, he became an Abbot. She followed in his footsteps and became an Abbess.
It seemed as if both of them were loudly declaring that if they couldn't have each other, they would have no one.
He would still visit her rather frequently over the years, but around eighty years ago, he had to stop for reasons that were entirely out of his control.
