“It’s a bit pagan, but it’s customary hereabouts to have a blood vow, along with the regular marriage service. Some priests won’t have it, but I don’t suppose this one was likely to object to anything. He looked almost as scared as I felt,” he said, smiling. “A blood vow? What do the words mean?” Jamie took my right hand and gently tucked in the last end of the makeshift bandage. “It rhymes, more or less, when ye say it in English. It says: ‘Ye are Blood of my Blood, and Bone of my Bone. I give ye my Body, that we Two might be One. I give ye my Spirit, ’til our Life shall be Done.’ ” He
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