The Pale Altar

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The Pale Altar

Elias, the Abbot’s voice cut through the humid air of the scriptorium, sharp as a knife slicing through wet parchment. The scribe did not look up from his work, his quill moving in a steady, rhythmic scratch against the vellum, the smell of iron gall ink and the faint, sweet rot of the plague-ridden cells below rising through the floorboards to meet his nose. He was forty years old, a man whose...

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