The Messed Up Stuff Around the Altar

The strange sensations were still there, but I was able to mostly choke them down at least until I had a proper look around the clearing. The altar was the focus of the whole thing, but in many ways it was the least interesting part. It looked like there were animals in that place once, but now each one lay just beyond the edge. On all of them, the fur or feathers had been burned away, and all that was left was their skin scolded or vivid, angry red like they'd been badly sunburned. They were dead, every one of them. Though none seemed to have decayed any more than their compatriots, either they had all died together, or

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