The Faded Portrait
The rain did not fall so much as it hovered, a fine, grey mist that clung to the stone walls of the university library, blurring the world outside into a watercolor smear of indeterminate distance. I sat at my desk, the wood worn smooth by decades of anxious elbows and ink-stained fingers, and I listened to the silence. It was a heavy silence, the kind that accumulates in old institutions,...
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