Luke barely breathed for fear of making too much sound while he waited for Whitney. He listened raptly for any sound outside the room, but even as time stretched, he didn't hear any signs of the Doyens coming down the hallway or the other members waking up from their sedation.
At first, Luke found it odd that the Doyens didn't alert everyone at the church over the intercom, and that the church didn't go into lockdown at a murderous intruder being inside the premises. To everyone in the front half of the church, the few people hanging around after service, everything was completely normal.
But as Luke thought about it, the lack of outward reaction fell perfectly in line with the rest of The Faith's façade; the cult had long perfected the art of pretending that nothing was happening and n
