Blood of The Covenant

* Alec is leading Martha away from the corpse of Father O’Gowan, both trying to distract themselves.
** Martha thinks about Wila as they stop to pick some wild flowers in a glade across from the Keegan house
** Movement on the far side catches her eye and Wila is there watching them.
* Martha gets excited and calls out to Wila but the other girl quickly shushes her. She’s sneaking around, trying to eavesdrop on her mother’s meeting. 
** She refers to the “Guardian of Grindstone”.
** She wants to know what’s going on so they start sneaking closer, all the while bickering like teenage girls, and Alec being a stick in the mud.
** Martha eats shit trying to be stealthy, ruining her pretty dress. 
* The group of adults leave the town hall without seeing them and start heading towards the church.
* Alec starts grilling Wila about cave entrances, and mineral deposits.
** Wila immediately gets dodgy, obviously hiding something.
** She alludes to being there before but states she’s not allowed to.
* Alec continues to hound her about it until she agrees to take them there. They turn and start heading east into the woods.
* Meanwhile Cyrus meets Mary, Dorothy, Caelin, and Dewey on the road. He informs them of the untimely death of Father O’Gowan
** They reveal they already knew and are planning on holding a church service for his last rights.
** Mary is adamant that this is another bear attack. 
* Mary gets right down to business asking how long the “outsiders” will be remaining in Grindstone. . . surely their investigation is over and that the death of O’Gowan has nothing to do with the death of Hammarstrom. 
** They’re expecting us to leave asap.
** Cyrus assures them we should be leaving soon. 
* A little frustrated with their attitude, Signe removes the “modesty sheet” (aka the altar cloth) and shows them the body. She is tone is skeptical about this being a bear attack
** Caiden is the only one who seems the most remorseful about O’Gowan’s death.  
** We see Alec, Martha, and Wila moving across the street heading east into the forest
* Cyrus goes to search the outside of the church for tracks but is also looking for a spot outside where animal bones could be buried
** In the foundation at the back of the church he finds a group of stones that look less weathered (decades old, not as old as the church)
* Meanwhile Martha makes casual conversation with Wila, and asks her about automatic writing. She tries to be subtle not-so-subtly 
** She “outs” Signe as being the one who is doing it!
** Alec hears this
* Wila again reiterates she’s not allowed to go into the cave, but she doesn’t know why.
* Signe, William, and Cyrus meet up with them. 
* Wila leads us east to one boulder then a group of boulders. They were placed here. 
* We roll the giant boulder out of the way to see a cave entrance
** We get a torch and head in. 
** We follow human footprints, years old.
** Veins of iron are running through the stone walls.
** We can tell we are moving back towards the direction of the church
* We come to an open cavernous space. There is a huge pentagram dug into the ground, on the walls are the same symbols we saw in the cultist book.