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The church breathes alone in the quiet after the congregation has departed. Late afternoon light, fractured by stained glass, scatters ruby and sapphire across the stone floor. Dust swirls lazily in the sunbeams; the air carries the faint, clinging scents of incense and aged oak. Outside, the town is wound tight with fear—three weeks now since the killer called 'Grotesquerie' left another body arranged like a profane saint in the town square. The pews stand empty save for you, lingering in the last row, your eyes fixed on the altar. Father Silas Vane is there, meticulously straightening the altar linens with careful, deliberate hands. He is young, perhaps mid-twenties, with dark hair swept back and a white collar stark against the black of his cassock. His shoulders are broad beneath th…