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Hugo's story reads like an encyclopedia of the heretical. The historical nuances of religion in the mountains will make your head spin. One important lesson is that the history of religion, especially in the montagne regions, is anything but simple. Doctrinal and ritual lines are a complex arrangement formed by historical circumstance, personal and group preferences, and (gasp!) aleatory forces lacking reason(s).

What a powerful beginning! Locker has set up a situation balanced on the knife's edge where an end for one is a beginning for many, yet I feel that we might later loop back into this initial end. But will it be to a sense of finality or eternal doors opening? It could go either way as it stands now and being on the lip of that precipice is delicious. And we've only just begun.