“Thank you, Reverend,” Lewis said with a slight smile for the portly preacher. He’d watched the change coming over the man, seen the dour, self-centered preacher growing in benevolence, piety, and purpose. He hoped Harkin was right, that they were here for a reason. It was some consolation for the men to cling to, at least. “Regardless of why or how, here we are. And coincidentally or not, we’ve been handed a worthy cause beyond our simple survival—and it’s a cause our survival depends on. There are monsters aplenty on this world; we’ve all seen them. And though they’re certainly ‘monsters’ of
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