by S. Blaise
A sweet short story involving a lord and a peasant, the up and downs of their long relationship and their solution to being together in a time where being a homosexual has dire consequences.
When he is almost ten years old, young Gerard Greville meets Matthias Dunn for the first time. He watches the older boy from the servant class chopping woods and he offers his help to carry the wood. Then he gets splinters and Mattie tenderly help to get it out. That day cements a foundation deep in...