Snippet the Last, TOM VARGAS AND THE CASE OF THE MEDDLING PRIEST.

12,783 freaking words.

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All cultist chanting sounds the same. I don’t know why. Maybe it’s because cultists are dumb, so getting them to learn more than one chant is too much of an ask.

From what I heard, the first sewers for Cin City were put in when people still thought we could put in pumps or machinery later. When things settled down. Well, things are still pretty damned unsettled, I guess, because there’s plenty of little rooms and alcoves down here with nothing in them.

The cultists had decided to squat in one alcove, although from the look of things they had take it away from the previous tenants first. It’d been a fight, too. A small heap of dead chanecks had been piled to one side, while a cultist’s corpse — at least, I hoped that it was his — had been been stripped, then placed on a makeshift table. The five remaining were the ones doing the chanting.

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