vis­it­ing this par­tic­u­lar church in this town. Sain­t’s curios­i­ty leads her to con­tem­plate the pos­si­bil­i­ty of anoth­er girl rest­ing here, as she had searched archives for evi­dence but found noth­ing rel­e­vant from four decades pri­or.

Nav­i­gat­ing through a maze of rooms, she enters a small­er build­ing filled with books orga­nized in black-stained hard­wood cas­es. There, she encoun­ters Sis­ter Isabelle, who appears to be man­ag­ing a cash reg­is­ter that like­ly does not see much busi­ness. After briefly inter­act­ing with her, Saint moves out­side, cir­cling around to the back of the build­ing, where the chil­dren’s home is sit­u­at­ed. The adja­cent con­crete area is adorned with col­or­ful chalk draw­ings and num­bers, bring­ing a sense of joy to the place. Amidst her explo­ration, she picks up a per­fect feath­er, a gray one from a mourn­ing dove. This feath­er sym­bol­izes pro­tec­tion, love, and guardian angels, as Nor­ma once explained to her, prompt­ing her to tuck it into her pock­et for safe­keep­ing.

For two hours, Saint works to unrav­el a mys­tery that seems elu­sive. She engages with locals about the church’s his­to­ry, wan­ders through the grave­yard to inspect grave­stones, and illus­trates her search by show­ing Eli Aaron’s pho­tos to the nun and a group of elder­ly men out­side.

At the church’s pul­pit, she runs her fin­gers over Latin inscrip­tions and intri­cate carv­ings on the bench­es, whis­per­ing, “What are you try­ing to tell me, Grace?” Seek­ing answers in a sacred space, Saint steps aside as the sis­ters pass by, observ­ing their rev­er­ence and the way they car­ry them­selves. She notes their sim­ple san­dals, veils, tunics, medals, and coifs, and par­tic­u­lar­ly their rosary beads, which sym­bol­ize their devo­tion.

Through­out this chap­ter, Saint’s quest inter­twines her past, her her­itage, and her belief in signs, leav­ing her in con­tem­pla­tive pur­suit of her grandmother’s guid­ance and the deep­er mean­ings hid with­in her sur­round­ings.