The Faded Portrait
The air in the conservatory was thick, a heavy, sweet suspension of decaying orchids and the damp, metallic taste of winter rain pressing against the glass. It was a space of suffocating beauty, a glass box suspended in the void of the estate, where the light did not so much enter as it lingered, trapped in the dust motes that swirled in slow, hypnotic orbits. Eleanor stood before the central...
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