“During Communion, the priest would offer the body—the wafer—to the penitent, along with a whisper detailing time and place.” Bones shook his head and stared at his right hand. “Took me a long time to understand how they offered the body of Christ with one hand and us with the other.” Another long pause. “Of the two of us, I was stronger. When I rebelled, they beat me until I couldn’t.”
