Claire says nothing. Not a word of doubt. But I saw it, just for a breath — the flicker. The same flicker I saw at Leoch, when she first learned of Laoghaire. Faith is a fragile thing, even between two souls bound across time. And the Devil’s finest trick is to make the innocent look guilty.
Tom Christie (50s, gaunt, pious) stands in the doorway, a lantern held high. His face is a mask of righteous fury. outlander s06 m4a
You have no right to stand on this land, Fraser. My daughter’s blood is on your threshold. Claire says nothing
He turns. Walks back into the storm.
(Standing in the rain, unflinching) I didna kill her, Tom. And I didna bed her. You know it. In your heart, you ken the truth. The same flicker I saw at Leoch, when
Claire. On my mother’s grave. On my father’s Bible. On the body of our Faith. I didna touch that girl.
They say a man is what he does when no one is watching. But I say a man is what he endures when everyone is wrong . And I will endure this. As I endured Culloden. As I endured the years without her.