The Faded Portrait
You are leaving the abbey as the fog rolls in from the valley floor, thick and white as wool. The stone walls, slick with centuries of damp, press close against your sides, narrowing the world until it is nothing but the narrow corridor and the heavy oak door at the end. You carry the portrait in a leather case that has worn soft with handling, the hide smelling of old smoke and tallow. It is...
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