The Pale Altar

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The Pale Altar

The iron bowl is cold. It bites into the palms of your hands, a weight of rust and old iron that feels heavier than it should be. You are Elias. You are forty-two. You are a baker in Oakhaven, a town that smells of wet wool and the sweet, cloying rot of the earth. You want the dowry. You want it by the winter solstice, when the frost cracks the stone and the hunger peaks. The opposing force is...

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