This place was a magnet for that sort of shadow and darkness, though Liam had not realized it when he was younger. Now though, now he saw the shadows everywhere, lived in them and knew them intimately.

"You're right, Father. There is kindness left, and it deserves to be protected."

From people like him.

Liam laughed at being called out on his subject change. "I suppose it isn't. But curiosity isn't a sin, is it? Because I have that in spades as well." A natural inquisitiveness that could get him in as much trouble as some of his more unsavory activities.