Walking through the darkness was harder than he'd expected. Klaus made his way forward with his hand trailing along the wall. His fingertips registered the cold sensation of stone and a thin layer of accumulated dust. The soles of his shoes pressed against a floor damp with water. Cold air crept up from beneath his heels. He could sense Lili following close behind him. Her gait was slightly awkward from favoring her injured ankle, but she kept her footsteps quiet. Klaus didn't stop. Beyond a single door, the voices of patrol priests could still be heard. They were saying the lower district would be completely sealed off. Search for anyone carrying unrecovered paper fragments, they said. (Faster than expected.) He'd found the paper fragment in Bloch Sechs two nights ago. The report had reached Archbishop Orban, and the pursuit order had come down in roughly 48 hours. Klaus had predicted almost precisely how quickly this city's organization would move. Still, the reality of actuall