Synopsis

Adam let the knife clatter to the floor. Sam inquired as to his name, and Adam replied simply, "Adam." Sam fetched water from the kitchen, intending to assist Adam in cleaning the wounds he’d sustained from his fall down Widow's Hill. Professor Timothy Stokes entered at that moment, and Adam fled into the night. Sam pleaded with Stokes to restrain him, but the professor did not intervene. "He seems the type to have jumped," Stokes observed, referring to Widow's Hill. "No one could survive such a