The Pale Altar

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The Pale Altar

The rain did not fall so much as it hung, a grey curtain drawn tight against the windows of the St. Jude’s Institute for Cognitive Anomalies. It was a building that smelled of wet wool and old paper, a place where the air felt thicker than it should, as if the atmosphere itself had forgotten how to circulate. Eleanor Fairchild sat in a chair that was slightly too small for her frame, her hands...

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