Consumed with Eve"s care, Felix was oblivious to the activity in the chapel. Loup restlessly roamed the nave listening to the Templars hammer at the walls, windows, and doors. Aimee and Luis, waiting by the altar, cheered as Brandy and Ray raised the crucifix through the floor from below. Trevelyan watched frowning from the gallery rail.
The Americans rested the religious icon, upright at Brandy"s insistence, and brushed away the dust and spiders webs they"d carried up with them. Ray dropped the trap door closed, shuddered and declared, “Never, ever, ever, under any circumstances will I go down there again!”
“Eh bien,” Loup said, watching from the dark ambulatory doorway. “At least not while you"re alive, hein?”
Eh bienheinAfter a brief flirtation with mental illness, it seemed, the old
