The foundation stone has one line cut across it, and the line is four hundred years old, and it is written in the imperative.

A vow spoken in this chapel is kept at dawn. It does not distinguish between a vow and a sentence said at four in the morning to a wall.

MioneI have read this stone twice a year for six years and I have never once read it properly. It is not a blessing. It is a rule.

The door of the chapel is closed and it is not locked and it will not open, and that is the second thing she learns in five minutes.