"Glad t'meet you, ma'am. Hope you're settlin' in well."

"I am, thank you," I say, smiling. "Everyone at the abbey is very kind."

Brother Samuel makes a detailed examination of the place, and I am curious. He seems to know a great many things for a monk. Not that monks cannot be educated, but not normally in matters such as these. But his next words catch me.

"Blood?" I kneel down next to him. "I don't suppose there's any way to tell if it is animal or human."