The Faded Portrait

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The air in the King’s archive tasted of dust and old varnish. Elias Thorne held the brush with a steady hand, his fingers wrapped around the handle as if it were a surgical instrument. He was thirty years old, a man of quiet, technical precision, and he needed this pension. The portrait of Elara, his late wife, hung on the easel, its colors faded to a ghostly whisper. The court had cut the...

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