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Chapter 2 - The Child is Not a Bastard
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... ing at the altar before him. The flickering candlelight illuminated the stone surface.
Disheveled black hair swayed in his vision as he moved closer. Beside him, a white-bearded elderly man, his only friend and collaborator in this grim endeavor, exhaled anxiously.
"This ritual offers no guarantees," the white-bearded man said, his voice trembling. "The child's soul may not return whole. An external force might seize him instead."
The man in the black hood gave no reply. ...
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