The Pale Altar

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The Pale Altar

Elara. The name hangs in the cold air of the weaving shed, sharp as a snapped twig. Silas does not look up from his pipe. He puffs, the smoke curling into the rafters where the dust motes dance in the grey light. You sit at the loom, your hands moving with the mechanical precision of a clockwork bird. The shuttle flies. The warp is taut. You are thirty-two, and the debt is a weight on your...

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