The Pale Altar

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The Pale Altar

The house breathed. It was a slow, rhythmic expansion and contraction of old oak and plaster. Elias stood in the center of the library. He held a glass of water. The water was still. He did not drink. He watched the dust motes drift in the shaft of afternoon light. They moved like tiny, suspended lives. The door behind him opened. A creak of hinges. Then the scrape of leather soles on the...

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