Chéri stayed completely stone faced as Francis explained and they expression didn’t change a bit until the story was well over and the final comment had been made.

Then they started laughing so hard, so openly, so crassly even it felt like the walls were shaking and they could be heard on the other side of Whitby.
He called some form of higher power and shook their head. “Encroyable” was all they could say, really. They scratched their head in debrief and then added “Brennan” and touched their ear. Had the other priest heard of that? Had he tried to mediate?