The Pale Altar

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The Pale Altar

The pneumatic press coughed. It was a wet, rhythmic sound, like a lung clearing of phlegm. Sergeant Elias Thorne stood in the center of the Ironworks, his boots heavy on the iron grating, and listened. He was thirty-four, with a pension two years away and a spine that ached when it rained. He had come to certify the machine. That was the job. The company, Halberd & Sons, needed a signature....

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