The Pale Altar

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The Pale Altar

The smell of brass filings and stale tea hung heavy in the air, a metallic tang that coated the back of your throat as you bent over the ledger, your fingers trembling slightly against the cold leather binding. You were forty years old, Elias Vane, and in the amber light of the gas lamp, the numbers on the page swam before your failing eyes, the ink bleeding into a dark, indistinct blur that...

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