The Faded Portrait
The ice broke the cathedral floor at dawn, a sound like a bone snapping inside a giant’s skull. You stood in the center of the nave, your boots sinking into slush that smelled of sulfur and ancient dust, while the light from the high windows turned the falling water into suspended diamonds. You were the Head Archivist of the Order of the Silent Key, a man who had spent forty years cataloging...
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