The Pale Altar
The rain did not fall so much as it hovered, a thick, grey veil that turned the windows of the Ashworth estate into mirrors of mud and moss. Inside, the air was stale, smelling of wet wool and the particular, dusty sweetness of old paper. Thomas Ashworth sat at the head of the long oak table, his hands folded over the leather-bound ledger that served as the spine of his existence. He was a man...
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