THE ALTAR WE BURNED
he intoned, his voice dark with disbelief, “how dare you stand here, armed with treachery and blasphemy?”
But Michael didn’t flinch. “I do not stand here for myself,” he said evenly. “I stand for truth. And for justice long denied.”
He lifted a sealed scroll from his belt and unrolled it, revealing a tapestry of symbols, signatures, and one central decree—the original covenant of the Order, signed centuries ago by the founding bishops. It was a sacred charter, long believed lost, that dictated the true purpose of the Church: protection of the innocent, not control over them.
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