The Faded Portrait
The brush trembled in my hand, the bristles caked with a pigment that smelled of wet earth and old iron. I was thirty-four years old, Elias Thorne, a junior archivist with ink-stained fingers and a contract that bound me to the subterranean silence of the Blackwood Estate. It was 1912, and the gas lamps in the basement flickered with a rhythmic, dying pulse, casting long, distorted shadows...
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