On the journey back to Mandrake Hall Vincent could not clear his mind of the event he had witnessed back at the cottage.
After Mathew had staked the poor creature through the heart, he had then removed her head with an axe. Vincent could still hear the sound of it hitting the floor after rolling off the table. He and Father James had left the men to deal with the corpse while they travelled back to the church.
As the rain had subsided, Vincent declined the priest’s offer of being driven home.
In truth, he hoped that his lone ride might help clear his mind of the vision of the woman’s decapitation. Father James had assured him on their way back that the woman was no longer human, and thus, could not feel pain or suffering in the same way she would have before becoming a creature of the n
