“You’ll know that in due course,” Sidney said and cut the line.
Salome Sue Richardson stared into space for minutes. She walked back to Kathy’s room like a zombie. The darkness that followed her recoiled at the door. The continuous flow of prayer coming from Reverend Martens’s mouth stopped it for a while. Then it flattened itself against the wall, finally able to enter the room, and surrounded Sue again. Despite the ongoing prayer battle in front of her, she felt she would need to go pick up the book. Many family, domestic demons, writhing in that black cloud were trying to push her back to the beaten track prepared for her by her great-granny.
Oddly, she saw—and shrank from—the light that surrounded Kathy’s body. Sue had never seen God’s graceful light with her bare eyes. She thought G
