The Faded Portrait

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The rain did not fall. It hung. It hung in the air of the city, a gray veil that smelled of wet stone and old blood. The year was one thousand and four, or perhaps one thousand and five. Time had lost its teeth. It chewed on nothing. Elias stood before the mirror. He was a man of the North. A Saxon. A wanderer. He wore a cloak of coarse wool, brown as dried earth. It was heavy. It pulled at his...

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