It was not sought in the confessional but in the deeds of the day, each act of atonement a step towards redemption. They wore their penance not as a shroud but as a badge, each acknowledgment of past failings a brick in the reconstruction of the present.
Penance — Forgiveness was the currency of their new realm, each transaction a healing, a mending of the fabric torn by former transgressions.
⸱ Their journey was one of reconciliation, each step taken not to erase the past but to build a bridge towards a more forgiving future ⸱
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