The Faded Portrait

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The rain did not fall. It hung. A gray veil over the valley. Elias walked. His boots squelched in the mud. He carried a satchel. Inside, a letter. The ink was still wet. It smelled of iron. He was a maker of seals. Wax. Wood. Stone. A craftsman. Not a man of war. But war had come to his door. It had come in the form of Lord Blackwood. Blackwood had burned the village. He had taken the grain. He...

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