The Pale Altar

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The Pale Altar

The banquet hall smelled of stale wine and fear. Elias Thorne sat at the far end of the long table, his hands trembling not from cold, but from the weight of the small, leather-bound book in his pocket. It was his mother’s final manuscript, a relic from her thirty years as a clerk in the Ministry of Records. He had come to secure her pension, a meager sum that represented the only tangible...

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