No verse, no pious phrase to soften it into something comfortable.

Only the date.

The date the tunnel was found.

“So that no one can ever say later that this didn’t happen,” she told Inmaculada.

“So that when the story gets smooth and easy the way stories do, there is a hard piece of metal in the wall that remembers it was true.” Inmaculada had it made exactly as Amparo asked, from the very iron that had locked the sisters into the dark, and set it into the refectory wall where every sister would pass it every day.

Chapter 23 — What Amparo Reclaimed