The Pale Altar
The quill tip hovered a hair’s breadth above the vellum, trembling with a violence that had nothing to do with the cold. Thomas Bradshaw pressed his wrist against the oak desk, anchoring himself, his breath held in his chest like a swallowed stone. The candle flame, guttering in the draft from the scriptorium’s high windows, cast long, jagged shadows that seemed to lean toward the altar in the...
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