The Pale Altar
The fever broke at dawn, leaving me with a mouth that tasted of copper and the specific, sterile chill of the hospital corridor, where the air itself seemed to vibrate with the low, constant hum of the ventilation shafts, a mechanical breath that served no one and yet sustained the whole building. I had been discharged against the better judgment of Dr. Aris, a man whose face was perpetually...
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