The Faded Portrait

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The iron gates of the Convent of St. Jude did not creak. They swung with the silent, terrible certainty of a guillotine blade falling. Elara stood before them, the wind from the moor tearing at her hair, which was dark and tangled like seaweed pulled from a freezing sea. She was seven. She was afraid. But fear, she had learned, was a cold thing that lived in the belly, and she knew how to...

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