The Faded Portrait
The train hissed into the station of St. Jude, a long, mournful exhalation that seemed to carry the weight of the entire industrial age in its steam. Elias Thorne stepped down from the third-class carriage, his boots finding the wet cobblestones with a reluctance that mirrored his own spirit. He carried a single leather valise, worn thin at the corners, and a pair of hands that had spent the...
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