The Distant Threshold

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The black stain on the altar was fresh. It glistened in the dim light of St. Jude’s, a wet smear against the dry, cracked stone. I wiped it with my thumb. The fluid was cold, viscous, and smelled of iron and old paper. It did not come off. It sank into the rock as if the stone were thirsty. I am Elara Vane, thirty-two years old, and the archivist for the town of Oakhaven. My job is to preserve...

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