Chapter 1

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The devout know the terrible truth. Evil cannot be destroyed. The devout know the terrible truth. Evil cannot be destroyed.The devout know the terrible truth. Evil cannot be destroyed.FROM THE BOOK OF ST. ALBANS FROM THE BOOK OF ST. ALBANSHolding a large burning torch held over my head and slightly in front of me, I slowly moved up the stone steps of the monastery’s ancient East Tower, disregarding the frigid winter’s grip whistling through the tower’s massive stone walls in some somber summoning of the dead. Outside, a winter storm screamed and moaned and howled in rage. Snow—in vast clouds of white fury so thick, one could be buried from nape to toe in a matter of moments—would soon add another four or five feet of snow to the already prodigious amount filled the narrow valley below t

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