The Faded Portrait

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The stone tower of St. Jude’s Abbey smelled of damp limestone and the sharp, metallic tang of oak gall ink. Elias Thorne sat at his desk, the single pane of glass before him frosted with the first breath of winter, his fingers hovering over the parchment like a man reaching for a ghost. He was forty-five years old, though the mirror in the corner of the room had begun to show him as something...

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