The Pale Altar

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The Pale Altar

The dream was of white stone. Not marble, for marble is cool and dead, but limestone, warm to the touch, porous as bread. Thomas Ashworth stood in a cathedral that had no ceiling. The sky above was a bruised purple, heavy with rain that had not yet fallen. He held a book. It was thick, bound in leather the color of dried blood. The pages were blank. He knew this. He had known it for a hundred...

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