The show time didn't last very long. Once Samuel proved to the Brotherhood we were who he claimed the meeting broke up, though I didn't get to watch the others leave. Samuel turned and returned the way we had come, with Jack, I in his golden grasp, trailing along behind.

Two corridors and several doors later, I was planted in a high-backed wooden seat at a long dining table, a pristine place setting before me and more food than I could imagine eating spread out before me. ...