This was a lovely story, truly in keeping with the books. I don't usually read death stories, but this was beautifully done and enjoyably touching to read, very much in character. I hope you write more Cadfael stories.

Beatilful. This brought tears to my eyes.

A heartfelt story about a favorite novel series. Your writing style is excellent and you have the facts of the novels down very well. I truly hope you'll write more Cadfael fanfics in the future.

a most excellent end to one of my all time favourite series... beautifully in character and that is so very like something cadfael would do.
thankyou for a wonderful story.

o that's wonderful! I read this too late or I definitely would have voted for it. It's the perfect ending to cadvael's story, very well done!

Well, I've wanted to read some of the 'Brother Cadfael' series by Ellis Peters for a long time now, but never managed somehow. Now I definitely will. Your story is sad, beautiful and very well written, and I liked it a lot. Good work!

Lovely!

What an absolutely lovely piece of writing. I think you've captured the characters extremely well and the wording and use of language makes me feel like I've just read another in Ellis Peters' series.

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I only just today found that Cadfael had a section on this site after being a member for over 6 years. This is beautifully written, well crafted and well in keeping with the books I love so well. It reduced me to tears and captured that awkward relationship between Robert and Cadfael really well, I also felt that you wrote the interactions between Jermone and Cadfael really well.

I wish I had seen this in time to vote for it in the contest. Made me cry damn it.

You have killed me with heartbreak but oh, it was beautiful.

Excellent story. I was teary-eyed in places.

I loved your story, thank you. You stayed very true to the original charater, well done. The story was sad and happy, complicated and straight forward, nice.

What a wonderful bequest for Cadfael to leave his brothers. The limit of our sight, indeed.

Oh, wonderful tale, and as Jean Lamb told me, brink a hanky. What a marvelous look inside the frost-bitten soul of a man who wanted to be useful. Brother Jerome makes such good sense as the sort who would follow his duty to the ends of the earth, if someone would show it to him, but who was never shown anything except cold orders as if to a robot. And who never received a scrap of appreciation in his life for all his hard work and service.

There, I think, is where Brother Cadfael missed the mark. It's not kindness that Brother Jerome needs now, it's sincere appreciation for the virtues he has and the work he has done.