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Mary-Allison Flagstone

Christopher interrupts his own story, standing suddenly. His tale is already so sad, and I sense it’s only going to get sadder. God’s Shadow, what a joke. They murdered Christopher's parents right in front of him, then adopted him to commit atrocities for a ticket to Heaven.

How confused and strange it must have been to befriend his parents’ murderers. Captain Hanson—Is he related to the same Hanson at the hotel's front desk? Or ...