The building above the basement was a two-story structure that had been used as a storefront before the Church converted it, based on what he saw through his summons. The windows on the ground floor were boarded up from the inside, and the door had been reinforced with iron bars. It looked abandoned from the outside—exactly what the Church would have wanted.
Reidar climbed the stairs, stepping over the body of a Church member who had been killed on the landing, and emerged into a ground-floor room that had been gutted and turned into an office. Desks. Maps were pinned to the walls, and stacks of documents covered every surface.
Through the windows, Reidar could see the streets of Kingsgate.
It was the middle of the day at that point, which was problematic since many civilians were out hunting. Despite this, the streets weren't empty. He could see the people who were going about their business, stopping to stare at the undead soldiers marching past them.
