“How odd. I had expected to find a cross," McGilliveray said
with a wary expression. He let go of the bag so that Alan could tuck it
back into his shirt. "The white man's cross is off-center. There is no
sense of being centered, and the directions lead off to nothing, which
is why all white men, all Christians are so unhappy, and want to have
dominion. I saw the old roods, the Celtic crosses of your people in the
long ago, which had circles around the center, but the directions go
beyond the circle. They must have been close to the truth in those
days, but even so, they never really knew peace.”