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"I have been travelling for many days, I am going to use this church as shelter for the night,"
Comma splice. Also, instead of saying "I have" or "I am", I suggest you use contractions. So I have > I've and I am > I'm.
He looked at me with his strange, gray eyes.
Cut out the comma.
I frowned, not only did he ask too many questions, he was far too blunt.
Another comma splice! Change the comma after "frowned" to a semicolon.
but, something seemed amiss about this man.
But shouldn't have a comma after it.
He appears in front of me like a shadow
Was he not in front of her before? If he was behind her, how did he see her scars? This makes no sense. Cut this out.
That's the end of my nitpicks. Here are my thoughts:
1. So she's an exorcist... okay. I suppose I can dig it. I think it was a bit random, but hey, surprises are meant to be just that, eh? What I think would've made this best is if you described her emotions more. Right now, we aren't seeing much of who she really is. We don't really know Katarina; therefore, we can't connect to her.
If this man was indeed possessed by a demon, then there's a possibility you never would've noticed. Seeing as she's suddenly an exorcist, she would've noticed. Don't they have intuition and stuff like that? She would've sensed something was wrong with him, felt the mysterious aura he gave off. Perhaps his dark eyes made her stomach tighten or chills run down her spine. Seriously, even stereotypes are better than nothing. I want to know what's going through her mind.
2.
He had been dead around a week,
Unless you're working some evil/alchemist/voodoo stuff, this won't fly. Dead is dead. Being possessed by a demon does nothing to stop the body from decomposing. So Katarina definitely would've noticed something wrong, whether it was the smell or the rotten flesh or the molted hair or etc.
3. Your chapters are awfully short. Consider expanding them. You could've easily combined this and the first part without it being too long. It would've been the right length, actually.
4. I've been thinking about it and I'm still iffy on the sudden "hello! I'm an exorcist" thing. I suggest you hint towards it, like her immediate suspicion of him or her unconscious gripping of her cross. Anything that makes it come off as a good thing rather than a groaning "are you serious?" thing.
5. I'm also not sure how I feel about the cross. Forget what I said about stereotypes earlier; they get tedious after a while. I highly encourage you to put your own creative license to this! So if the cross and the Lord's name works, then say holy water doesn't, or it has to be holy water blessed by the Pope or whatever religion you're working with here. Say that only sacred blades can harm the demons and that only a certain prayer of protection and banishment can send them back to hell. Work with this and put your own twist to it!
So far, I'm intrigued to see where you're going with this, so do let me know when the next chapter comes out. I hope my review helped.
~Iggy
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