The Pale Altar

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The Pale Altar

The quill trembled in Thomas’s grip, a slender, black instrument that felt less like a tool and more like a needle. He was twenty-two, a novice at the Abbey of St. Jude, and his fingers were stained to the knuckles with a mixture of oak gall ink and his own arterial blood. The smell hit him first, sharp and metallic, cutting through the stale, dusty odor of the scriptorium’s oak shelves. He...

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