The Faded Portrait
The banquet hall smells of roasted lamb and old stone, a scent that clings to the back of your throat like a secret you cannot swallow. You are sitting at the head of the table, though your hands are trembling beneath the linen napkin, your knuckles white as the bone china. Around you, the judges, the jurors, the observers of the city’s moral architecture, are laughing. It is a warm sound,...
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