The Points Between - Chapter 25

The Collection

The center of the maze was a circular courtyard, similar to the one at the entrance but smaller. In the middle was a marble statue, taller than Matthew by half. The scene was familiar to him: a woman gazing into the face of a small child, the child looking up into the sky. It was the same picture he saw on the tapestries hanging in the shining chapel at Bridge Street Park.

Matthew stepped past Simon and approached the statue, studying it carefully. He wasn’t a sculptor, but he th...