The soldier starts like a spooked fox when Lance claps a hand on his shoulder, revealing himself to more a boy than a man, and being faced down by someone else in a uniform seems to put him in his place. His hackles go down, but he won't make his departure without getting one last barb in.

"Let the Earth swallow this whole wretched village," he snaps, shrugs Lance's hand off his shoulder, and storms out of the chapel.

Once he is gone, Adhemar steps down from the pulpit and approaches the guard captain. "Thank you," he says mildly, though his eyes are on the handful of the soldier's fellows as they stalk out after their compatriot. "Though I expect there will be more difficulties of that nature in the coming days."