The Pale Altar

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The Pale Altar

The ink had the consistency of thick blood, a viscous, iron-rich sludge that Thomas Bradshaw ground with a pumice stone until his knuckles ached, the rhythmic friction the only sound in the scriptorium that competed with the wind howling off the moors and the low, subsonic hum that seemed to rise from the parchment itself. It was the year of our Lord 1342, and Thomas, forty years old with hands...

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