Every transaction has a cost.
Those contracts sometimes involve souls, power, and consequences, not just property.
Before anyone thought to question the technicalities, the ink was already dry on the parchment.
It did not start with Quintus Ashford or Tilly Vale.
It started… earlier.
But for the sake of clarity, we will begin in 1887.
Property changes hands.
Agreements are made.
Some of them are not meant to be understood.
By the time Quin Ashford becomes involved, the pattern is already established.
But the Vatican is aware.
And always has been.