The Pale Altar

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The Pale Altar

The house did not breathe, but it remembered. It stood at the end of a lane that had no name, only a memory of gravel and dead ivy, in a region where the map-makers had long since stopped caring about the precise curvature of the horizon. Elara Vane had lived there for forty years, a tenure that had calcified around her bones until she was less a woman than a fixture of the architecture itself....

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