Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist Page #3

from that boy today.

Cheche?

Yes.

Any luck?

Couldn't even get close.

I had to sedate him two weeks ago.

Just to treat a beating

he took from a villager.

Why don't they help him?

They think he's cursed.

What he needs is sustained treatment.

Yes?

Nothing.

Early this year.

Two of the cattle

have been killed already.

Thank you, Chuma.

I must keep you safe

for the lady doctor.

Cheche.

Cheche.

The sores were very infected.

I've cleaned and dressed them.

There's no permanent damage.

The leg and arm

are a different matter.

Night, Mara.

There's nothing you can do?

Not for the arm.

The leg...

The leg could be theoretical

Theoret

Theoret...

"Theoretically."

Theoretically, the leg

could be rebroken...

...and set properly by a surgeon

from Nairobi.

They fly from...

Do you think he'd allow it?

It was called Chelmno.

That was the Polish name.

The Germans called it Kulmhof.

I was in a processing center

for confiscated items.

It's amazing what you're capable of

when your physical survival is at stake.

Things you think

you could never endure.

Well, nobody knew back then.

Everybody... We heard stories.

I wish they could fix that generator.

No one wanted to believe.

Of course not.

Who could believe such things

were happening?

No one wanted to believe.

It's so much easier to believe evil

is random...

...or an ogre...

...not that it's a human condition,

something everyone is capable of.

I believed God let us decide

between good and evil.

I chose good.

Evil happened.

Now you travel.

What are you looking for?

Nothing.

Sometimes I think the best view

of God is from hell.

This boy here...

You brought something

out of that young man.

God is in that boy that doesn't speak.

Until he tried to speak to you.

He's an unfortunate.

One of God's afflicted.

I think what you're looking for,

Father Merrin...

...is here.

You have been very brave, Cheche.

You're on the mend.

There.

Better, eh?

Better.

Yes. Better.

Merrin was right about you, Cheche.

I thought you'd run away.

Cheche...

...if Appa and I...

If we could make your leg better

Better.

Would you want that?

We'll have a great deal of news

for Appa, won't we?

Merrin, it's magnificent.

Wait till you get inside.

The war in heaven.

St. Michael.

It's so strange.

Churches were built to honor God...

...provide a house of worship,

but this...

This can't have been a meeting place.

No.

This had to have another purpose.

Merrin.

Look at the figures.

Yes.

Church architecture is supposed

to reach for the heavens.

But this looks as if

As if it were holding something down.

These rocks.

These rocks are like plugs.

What is that?

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