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After searching the interior of the Cathedral for a half hour, you find Heather sitting on the lawn halfway down the hill leading to the Old Pine Woods. She's dressed in blue overalls with a black-and-gray Ramones t-shirt underneath. Her sandy hair blows to the side, lifted off her shoulders. Bare feet dig loose dirt. Aside from the rustling grass and distant calls of unseen birds, a quiet looms from river to forest. Empty roads stretch between the Cathedral lawn and the start of the thick woods.

"Hey," Heather says as you sit on the cool ground. She pulls out a blade of grass and flicks it a few feet. The wind catches and carries it away.

"Everything okay?"

"I'm just wondering why you attacked my brother? Mindy said you were trying to kill him."