Chapter 45
It had taken all afternoon and into the evening before Terrill was finally released.
Strangely, they let him—the murder suspect—go before they released the two men who had simply tried to hide him. Terrill and Sylvie waited for Perry and Grime together, and Father Harry joined them. They couldn’t say much with all the police listening, but they had an interesting conversation about religion, and encoded in that terminology, they talked about themselves.
“Your sister is new to…these sins,” Terrill said to Sylvie. “It will take a long time before she begins to really think about the meaning of it all.”
“How long?”
Centuries? Terrill thought. What he said aloud was, “The good news is, I don’t believe I am the only…person like me … who has turned against the darkness. There was
