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Eldress Beatrice had asked Sister Joan to stand In ay, accuser, is Sister Joan guilty?

Sister Matilda had answered i to Brother Winston without per the brother into sinfulness

One by one the Believers had risen and cried out, "Woe, woe" Just the single word, over and over again, until it was deafening in the wooden-walled rooiveness

Finally, when the cries were so loud, Selena couldn't stand them anymore, someone called for silence, and it ca into the room

Sister Joan fell to her knees, her head bowed

Let us pray, Believers, for Sister Joan's redemption

Selena sed hard, fighting a rising panic as she followed Beatrice down the woan?

She didn't know if she could handle such huht now God help her, she had no reserves of strength, no core from which to draw

Beatrice pushed through the closed wooden door and stopped on the s Rain slashed all around the the dead, blackened leaves into a frenzy

Nervously Selena twisted the s union s "Y-Yes, Eldress Beatrice?"

"There has been an accident Elliot was out with several

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of the men yesterday afternoon I am not entirely certain yet what happened, but I believe the brothers accidentally trespassed on someone's land The world," she said softly, "doesn't accept such accidents by our kind very well Elliot was shot The doctor believes he is dying"

"Dying?" Selena's legs seeive way She reached out, steadied herself by clutching Beatrice's rail-thin shoulder "I must see him"

"He's being well taken care of, Sister It isn't proper-"