The Faded Portrait

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The bread was black. It was not burnt, but it was the color of old bruises, of wet earth, of the void that swallows the star. Elara held it in her hands. The crust cracked. She did not bite. She watched the crumb fall. It was a small, dry rain. The sky above the valley was not a sky. It was a membrane. It pulsed. It breathed. The air tasted of copper and rotting apples. This was the End, or...

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