The Pale Altar

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The Pale Altar

The blade of my mace was stuck in the stone wall, and the blood running down my forearm was not mine. I stood there, breathing hard, the air thick with the smell of ozone and old dust. It was the Office of Historical Preservation, a basement archive that smelled of rotting paper and silence. I am a soldier. Not a warrior in the poetic sense, but a man who holds a line, who strikes when...

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