10/03/2026 02:03

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I can't go to Confession just now. Again came that stabbing recollection -- a bride, a bride covered in blood. And remove Quinn from the vicinity.            In a fog, I stared at the wounded bouquet of flowers.

'We've existed for perhaps a thousand years. And then, quite slowly, he began to fade.             I opened my eyes.             The early light awakened me like scalding water.