The Pale Altar

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The Pale Altar

The rain did not fall so much as it hung in the air, a heavy, grey curtain that smelled of wet stone and old iron. Thomas stood in the courtyard of the St. Jude’s almshouse, his boots sinking into the mud that had turned the cobblestones into a slurry of black clay. He was twelve years old, a boy who had learned early that the world was a mechanism of cold gears, and that to survive, one had to...

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