The Faded Portrait

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The iron gate at the edge of our village was never meant to be locked, yet it was. It stood like a broken tooth in the jaw of the hill, rusted and silent. I was twelve when the war came to the lowlands, but in our story, the war had been there since the beginning. It was not a sound of gunfire or the smoke of burning thatch. It was a weight. A pressure in the air that tasted of copper and old...

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