The Pale Altar

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The Pale Altar

The ink is wet, Elias. It is always wet. Elias Thorne stared at the quill in his hand, the nib trembling not from cold, but from the sheer, crushing weight of the silence in the upper vault. He was thirty years old, a man whose face had been worn smooth by the friction of ledgers and deadlines, and he looked at the Senior Archivist, Vane, with the hollow, defeated gaze of a prisoner who has...

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