“You see?” snarled Douglas to the Sanctum group. “I told you that I didn't kill Gamaliel Kaine! He was begging me not to make him—”
“Doug, son,” said Reverend Abbott, whom Jonah hadn't actually realized was there until he said something, “your innocence has long since been established. Let this boy continue.”
With a nod of gratitude, Jonah did just that. He told them about the trick he'd fallen for, and how Jessica had pretended to be grievously injured and creating a façade to make them think that she'd killed three people in self-defense. He told them what happened after he'd crossed the Threshold of Death, and as much of Creyton's monologue as he could recall (which, strangely, was nearly all of it). He told them of Creyton's achieving Praeterletum, and that was around the time that h
