‘Perhaps what you saw on the Eclipse was not a dark omen.’ I snort. ‘Since when do you hold with such foolishness?’ ‘Since one of the greatest Chaplains our Chapter has ever known speaks of hope.’ ‘He is wrong to do so.’ ‘There is no hope?’ ‘There is duty. There is faith. There is death. That is enough.’ Albinus shakes his head. ‘It is not,’ he says, and moves back closer to Quirinus.
