Silent Salt doesn't care for his 'bride' much, since she obviously doesn't care about him either. White Lily's either wandering into his brothers lands leading to him having to fetch her or she's Witches knows where before showing up with some new thing she'll be rambling about for the next week.
Silent Salt doesn't care for his 'bride' much, since she doesn't respect his boundaries. She'll ask if she should do an experiment but it doesn't matter what he says cause she'll do it anyway! Or White Lily will walk to the entrance of a place Silent Salt told her not to go and then stand right on the edge waiting for him to notice her. And once he arrives, that's when she'll walk in!
Silent Salt doesn't care for his 'bride' much, not at all. Until one day she's found crawling to his lands covered in burns.
"She's more like a cat." Silent Salt grumbled to Solidarity.
"She was an unwilling sacrifice, Salt. I'm sure she'll adjust." Solidarity tried to be supportive.
"She openly states how much she hates my domain —,"
"You and Guide live in catacombs."
"She runs off and causes mayhem wherever she goes, so I have to go running after her!"
"Fae thought her attempts at reading one of his scrolls was charming."
"She questions EVERYTHING about our domains and then argues with MY answers!"
"Curiosity is not a sin, Salt." Solidarity thought it was endearing how much his little brother "did not care" for his bride.
"It should be for her." He grumbled.
"Salt," Solidarity laid a firm, but gentle hand on his shoulder. "She was sacrificed because her village believed the cult was performing unethical experiments on cookies. Seeing as you as the God of Silence, it would fall under your domain if any of these experiments crumble."
"But none have as far as we can tell!" Silent Salt insisted, "And by our laws, I cannot act until the transaction has been proven! Until then, she is simply a sacrifice!"
Solidarity was beginning to wonder if the Knowledge brothers had been correct in keeping their temple closed to mortals. It seemed like they invited nothing but trouble. He sighed and shook his head. That wasn't very "in solidarity" of him, was it?
He gave his little brother a shoulder squeeze, "Just...try to give her time. You saw how long it took me to seduce Fae away from his eternal rest in Guide's domain."
Silent Salt just continued to grumble as his older brother left him to his stewing rage. Feeling energized and unproductive, he stood and walked to his stables.
"Hello, Nox." He patted his oldest and most trusted companion.
Nox Black Salt, his old warhorse, sneezed and nuzzled his hand (no doubt looking for a snack or a treat).
He sighed, "Where has my blasted bride run off to today, I wonder..."
White Lily wasn't anywhere in his domain (nor was she visiting either of his brothers or their spouses). For a brief moment, he wondered if she'd perhaps wandered out of their temple entirely and gone back to her village (although he highly doubted it, seeing as the last time she'd done that the villagers had simply tied her back up and dropped her onto his altar).
Just as he considered wiping his hands of her, he heard someone collapse in the great hall.
Silent Salt ran out to see and gasped, "White Lily?!" He ran to her side. As her arms gave out and she fell back onto the stone floor. Her pale dough was burned in several places, including her face, chest, and arms. The burns on her face were so severe, her eye was nearly swollen shut from all the blisters that had bubbled up under her dough.
"What..?" Silent Salt looked over her wounds. It looked like she'd been in an explosion.
Shakily, White Lily pressed something into his hand.
Silent Salt held onto her hand. Even through his armor he could feel how brittle her dough had become.
White Lily tool a raspy breath and looked up at him, dazed. Tears fell from her unburned eye, "S-Salt..."
"White Lily...what have you done??" Silent Salt looked at her incredulously.
"Th-there are children there." She wheezed, "I couldn't...I couldn't save them."
And then she passed out from the pain.
Silent Salt's brows furrowed under his helmet and he finally looked at what White Lily had pressed into his hand.
It was a torn piece of paper with the words "experiment 0009" and the top third pf a picture which showed the top of a child's head.
Now Silent Salt was involved. He glowered at the gateway out of his dominion. He would slaughter every wicked, twisted, cursed cookie for experimenting on a child!
...Just as soon as he got his bride into bed and made sure she was safe!