And with the written guidance from your uncle, your mother found the location of our home here in this backwards town.
After your mother spent a couple of weeks here with me, as we prayed over your grandparents grave every day, we slowly fell in love with each other.
Within a month of being together, your mother was pregnant with you."
After speaking so hurriedly, he couldn't help but take a couple of seconds to catch his breath. He wasn't a fit man to begin with, so with the hurried movement and the constant speech, he was already feeling very exhausted by it all.
After catching his breath, he then took a couple more seconds to look behind and around him, hoping not to see anyone or anything, before he picked up his walking pace and dragged the boy along a bit more forcefully.
The boy who was already too exhausted to walk, could barely keep up at the current moment, but he still held on tightly to his father's hand, and listened to his every word carefully, as he was being dragged along.
"After your mother became pregnant, she told me that it was an abomination within the church for the future chief priestess to ever fornicate, much less have children.
She told me to promise never to reveal that I was the one who impregnated her to anyone, not even my own family. Otherwise, it'll bring catastrophe to me and our child.
I heeded her words, but foolishly I made a grave blunder that I will regret till this day." He said with a sigh of regret, and shame.
After taking a few moments to clear his head of the shame and the growing feeling of melancholy from missing his dear lover, he continued speaking to the boy next to him.
"After she became pregnant with you, child, we then spent the remaining months in seclusion from the outside world, until you were born.
After your birth, your mother hurriedly left us to go back to the church. She left a couple of days after your birth, in the early hours of the night, before I had woken up from sleep, leaving behind a note that explained why she had to leave so secretly.