The Pale Altar

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The Pale Altar

Chapter One Rosario Valdes stood in the rain, forty-two years old and owing two months’ rent to the temple granary, watching the junior archivist refuse to look at his face. The man held a ledger in one hand and a stamp in the other, his fingers stained with the blue ink that marked the state’s approval of silence. The wind off the plateau was sharp, cutting through Rosario’s coat and settling...

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