Chapter 46
“Tall, blue eyes with an iron novani slant, reddish-brown hair like the color of dying leaves. He wore white robes and said he was a priest; he looked the part. The man even prayed three times a day, loudly, and out in the garden.”
novani“On a Mission of Curing.”
“Yes exactly, on a Mission of Curing. We’ve many injuries in the mines, and sometimes a man can be put out of work for a year or more. The man seemed like a godsend, though I believe you when you say that he was a devil in disguise, I never truly trusted him.”
“You gave him room and board.”
“Yes, well...it would be terrible to turn away a man of God, a God-chosen man of God at that. His devilry was vile Holiness, I suspected him of something untoward, but he healed a months or more of laid up workers. The mines had
