Long Fall to ForeverChapter 4
"Yes?" The old man's voice was soft and tired, he'd been asleep. I'd found him in his apartments at the Vatican, which had surprised me, but not so greatly as news of the Pope's recent death. It would take the college several days to select a new one. The Cardinal's secretary in Washington, Father Perron, had told me and he'd been obviously upset by it, as I should have been, but I felt nothing and that realization was only mildly disturbing. "I'm in," I said softly. Perhaps...