"What do you want?" snarled Bin An Sha as he ripped open the door and glared at the couple in front of him.
"I am so sorry," simpered the woman, looking up at him from below lowered lashes. "I didn't want to bother you, but I knew you had company, so I brought you some food," she continued, holding up the covered dish in front of her like it was a peace offering.
"You know, she didn't have to do this. You and your… company could starve for all that I cared," sneered the man, putting a protective arm around the woman and bringing her closer to his side.
She was obviously pregnant, an uncommon state now in City A. Instead of people looking at her weirdly for being pregnant out of wedlock, people were worshiping the very ground she walked on.
She was the Saint of City A, a woman without power but one so kind and virtuous that everyone looked up to her.
