The Pale Altar

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The Pale Altar

To the Council of the High Archive, I write this to account for the final inventory of the Scriptorium, specifically the twelve hours of labor logged in the ledger by the junior scribe, Elias Thorne, prior to his disappearance. It is a bureaucratic necessity, I know, to record the weight of a boy’s silence, but the ledger does not lie, even when the hand that holds it trembles. For three years,...

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