Chapters 7, 8 and 9 Summary

Chapter 7 - Harry and the Knights withdraw to a church, where they are met by Father Forthill. Harry has conversations with Sanya, who reveals that he doesn't believe in God and believes that everything happening to him is a hallucination, and Shiro, who asks why Harry is searching for the Shroud. Harry says he's doing it for the income, adding, in response to Shiro's questions, that it's less about love of money and more about dependence on it. Michael returns and explains that the demon they just fought was no ordinary member of the Fallen, but a member of the Order of the Blackened Denarius, a sect of the Fallen that tempts good human beings into evil through the focusing medium of a coin (see "Objects/Places - The Blackened Coins"). Harry, hearing of the Coins, imagines their potential power, believing...