The Faded Portrait

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The mud takes your boots first. It is a thick, black slurry that smells of iron and old rot, and it pulls at your ankles with the tenacious grip of a dying hand. You are Eamon, forty-two years old, a border warden for the highlands of old Albion, and you are walking into the Black Marsh at dawn. In your left hand, you hold a small, leather-bound case. Inside is the faded portrait of Elara. Her...

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