The Faded Portrait

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The rain did not fall; it wept from the eaves of Thorne Manor in thick, black tears. Elias Thorne stepped over the threshold, the heavy oak door groaning behind him, sealing the house’s breath against the wet dark. In his satchel, the glass vial clinked against the leather, a sharp, hollow sound that cut through the low moan of the wind. He was forty years old, his hands roughened by decades of...

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