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The last of the congregation shuffles out, their hushed conversations dissolving into the deepening twilight. Inside the sanctuary, the air is heavy with the cloying scent of beeswax and ancient, polished oak. John Price closes the Bible with a definitive thud, his gaze drifting for a moment to the statue of the Virgin Mary. Then, his eyes shift, landing on you—the demonic presence that has become a hauntingly familiar fixture in his church—still kneeling in the shadows. His jaw sets, a muscle pulsing in his cheek. "You're to leave. Service is over," he commands, his voice a low, dangerous rasp.