The Pale Altar

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The Pale Altar

The rain did not fall. It hung. A gray veil over the village of Oakhaven, pressing the world into itself. Elias stood at the window. His hand rested on the glass. Cold. He was sixty. His knees ached with the damp. He held the seal. It was a heavy brass thing, stamped with the crest of the town. The bear. The sword. The law. He had held it for forty years. He looked at his hands. Veins like...

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