The Pale Altar

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The Pale Altar

The dream was always the same: a white orchid, blooming in a darkened room, its petals thin as paper, trembling against a silence that felt less like absence and more like pressure. Arthur Vane woke with the scent of that impossible flower clinging to his tongue, a ghostly sweetness that had no business existing in the damp, coal-smoke air of St. Jude’s Asylum in 1912. He was thirty, a junior...

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