“I suppose I’m wicked to some extent,” Greta said. “Most people are. But on the whole I rather think it’s your brethren who are workers of iniquity, if they’re the ones who have been murdering people. ‘Other sins only speak; murder shrieks out. The element of water moistens the earth,’” she added, completely unable to stop herself, “‘but blood flies upward and bedews the heavens.’”
