The cardiologist, Dr. Amara, was the first to break protocol. She touched the finger.
Alistair’s training screamed trick —ventriloquism, a hidden speaker. But the mummified tissue of the finger had shifted, bending at a joint that should have been fused for six hundred years. relic cardinal
And he wonders: When a relic speaks, who is really answering? The cardiologist, Dr
“Finally,” it said, “a hand to write my own canonization.” who is really answering? “Finally