"I worked it he wasn't true when he didn't strike me down for thinking impure things in church. Then doing them. I had to test." He was 13 and unable to control himself, riddled with a want to sin and angry at his family for his life - it was worth the gamble. And here he was, even now. Maybe he'd go to hell still but he wasn't so sure. Seemed unlikely there was a hell and if there was, it had a lot to compete with out here.

He pulled out into a dirt road and the car rattled as he gunned it up the steeper parts of the road. It was mostly uphill from here. "I'm not a sideshows freak so don't get too interested in me. I don't like to play for an audience. My life is my life, my business and it ain't yours."

And today he was going to teach Edward to stay away from him.