The Pale Altar

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The Pale Altar

The ink was not merely black but a deep, bruised violet that seemed to drink the light from the small, candle-lit cell where Thomas Bradshaw sat, his fingers stained to the second knuckle, the smell of iron and gall nut hanging heavy in the air like the damp breath of a crypt. He was a scribe of the second rank, a man whose life had been reduced to the rhythmic scratching of quill on vellum, a...

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