The priest could not fight them, and he could not stop them from using the church as a rest stop. He even offered them some bread, although it was stale.
Just as they said, they had food and offered some to the people in the church and the priest nearly wept. The woman with the baby actually did when Sunshine gave her ready milk in a bottle for the child.
She did not even question how the milk had been kept warm or where it came from. She was just glad that her child could sleep on a full stomach after such a long time.
As they prepared to eat a dinner of noodles and roasted meat around a fire that Siegfried started close to the doors, Nimo showed Alfred's picture around.
"Have you seen this man?" She asked them.
They all shook their heads, telling her that they had not.
