The Chapel of the Returned

chapel

A small chapel of stone at the first bend above the gate, the only building on the way up, kept by the chaplain. It has no altar. Along every wall run shelves, and on the shelves stand the objects that came back: a child's shoe, a photograph of a place nobody recognises, a key, a glove, a pair of spectacles, a tin whistle, three hundred years of them, each with a slate giving the date it returned and the name of the one who went up a year before. The chaplain reads the shelves as other men read ...

Located in The Last Pass.