After a day of work, Sister Lynn dragged her exhausted body toward her room.
Recently, Rhine's demand for Steam Tanks had grown ever greater, and the tasks assigned to the Impure Ones had been pushed to their limit. Today, someone had worked themselves to death at their station, and Lynn had spent half the day helping deal with it.
She sighed silently, wondering how much longer such days would continue.
She returned to her room, located in the houses behind the church reserved for clergy.
After taking off her nun's habit, Lynn walked to the window, drew aside the curtains, and looked outside.
Good. No one was there.
She changed into a set of dark clothes suitable for movement and traded her little leather shoes for flat cloth shoes, so her footsteps would not make any tapping sounds against the ground.
She went to the bedside and tucked the item beneath her pillow into her slightly tight clothes. Lynn let out a long breath and smiled.
"Good, I can head out now!"
She put on her hood and silently slipped out of the room.
Night had already fallen. Only a few guards patrolled the church, and Lynn knew their routes well enough to avoid them with ease.
The church's front gate was not far away, but there were quite a few guards there. Lynn turned and headed in the other direction, soon arriving at... the Confessional.
The Confessional had always been her responsibility to clean. Over time, she had discovered a few secrets.
For instance... beneath this Confessional was a hidden passage leading outside.
Lynn had originally intended to report the passage, but she had a reason she absolutely had to leave.
At that thought, her eyes could not help but brighten. Those things... without them, she truly would not