The Faded Portrait

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The soup was thick. It sat in the iron pot, black and oily, smelling of burnt bone and something sweet that had gone wrong. I stared at it. The heat from the fire licked at my hands. I was the cook for the Ninth Battalion, a role that suited me better than the uniform. I knew the weight of a ration. I knew how to stretch a pound of beef into two. I knew how to make a man eat when he had lost...

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