“It makes you sick, being in that place,” said Thayer. “It’s not for the living. It’s not even for the dead. It’s a kind of limbo, a crawl space between worlds. It’s full of cracks and crevasses and dark, dark corners, all places to conceal and be concealed. That’s where the Brethren have sequestered themselves. They’ve made a lair there, far from the ones who’ve just gone astray. It’s a fortress, and it’s theirs. They emerge only if they have to, when there’s killing to be done in their name, and that’s when I catch flashes of them on this side. But they had no idea I could see them, not at
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