Father Alessio's archive gives us nothing new. We spend three hours going through the same old registers we already checked before, and by the time the light through the small windows turns gray with afternoon, my eyes ache and my hands are covered in dust."There's nothing else here," Father Alessio says finally, closing the last box. "I've shown you everything this church has on the Vane family. If Sal's right about them favoring churches, you'll need to look somewhere else.""Somewhere else where," Matteo asks, frustration creeping into his voice.Father Alessio thinks a long moment. "There are two other old churches in this city that came before mine.St. Agnes, where you're meeting her tomorrow night." He pauses. "And Our Lady of Sorrows, out near the old quarter, closer to where the first families settled here, long before the docks even existed."Isabella, who came with us despite Dante telling her to rest, looks up from the register she's paging through. "That's a two-hour rid
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