Nickolai told his fellow prisoners of the conversation he had had with Lazarus, such as it was. And he had told them how convinced he was that Brother Lazarus was lying through his canine teeth. Despite what he had told the dog, it was not enough. Nickolai had had his fill of mysteries, and of ho...
He had expected them to come in under the cover of darkness. He certainly wasn’t inconspicuous. However, he walked out into full sunlight for the first time in months. Above him, the sky was so blue it hurt, and below, diamond daggers of light lit the water as if someone h...