The Faded Sutra

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The Faded Sutra

The feast was counted by the weight of the salted pork on the table, three hundred pounds of it, stacked in pyramids that groaned under the pressure of the silver tongs. Elias Vane, Inquisitor of the Southern Diocese, stood at the head of the long oak table, his hands resting on the grain, feeling the splinters bite into his palms. He was forty years old, a man whose spine had been straightened...

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