The Pale Altar

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The Pale Altar

The oak tree at the edge of the commons had lost its bark, not in the way of natural decay which is slow and polite and gives the wood time to rot in the shadows, but in great, tearing sheets that peeled away like skin from a burn, leaving the heartwood underneath stark and white and exposed to the indifferent wind that swept through the valley of Ashwood where the fog sat so low in the...

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