The Faded Portrait

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The iron shackle on my left ankle had long since worn the flesh into a callus, a thickened patch of skin that no longer felt the cold of the floor or the bite of the chain, but today, as the steam rose in white, suffocating plumes from the boiler room vents, it felt like a fresh wound, a raw and weeping thing that screamed in a language older than words. I stood in the center of the great...

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