The Faded Portrait

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2026-08-19 01:52:36 -

The banquet hall is cold, though the hearth roars with a hungry, orange violence. You sit at the head of the long oak table, but the seat is empty to you, a hollow space carved by absence. The air smells of roasted pheasant, beeswax, and the metallic tang of fear. Around you, the faces of the gentry—Margaret, Thomas, the Whitmores—move in a blur of polite, suffocating silence. They are waiting...

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