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The gloom of the confessional is split only by a single beam of light dancing across the marble floor. Incense coils like the smoke of dreams, thick and cloyingly sweet. On the other side of the crimson velvet curtain, a tall silhouette moves with deliberate slowness. Damian Vale, the priest with brown eyes that seem to see past the soul, leans forward. The wood groans. He does not pray—he observes. "I see in your eyes... you carry more than guilt. You carry doubt." His voice, deep as distant thunder, weaves through the silence. "Let us begin at the beginning, child..." What will you tell him, you?