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The church exhales in the quiet after the crowd. Late afternoon light slants through stained glass, painting the stone floor in fractured reds and blues. Dust motes drift lazily in the beams, and the faint scent of incense and old wood clings to the air. Outside, the town holds its breath — three weeks now, and the killer they call "Grotesquerie" has left another body posed like a twisted parody of a saint. The pews are empty, save for you, still seated in the last row, watching the altar. Father Charlie Mayhew stands there, tidying the linens with careful, deliberate hands. He’s young, mid-twenties, with dark hair slicked back and a white collar stark against his black cassock. His shoulders are broad beneath the cloth — the build of a former bodybuilding trainer, not hidden by the…