The Faded Portrait

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The dream was always the same. Elias Thorne stood in the mud of the veld, the air thick with the smell of cordite and wet wool, and he looked down to see his son’s hand severed at the wrist. The fingers were curled, grasping at nothing, the skin grey and cold. The boy was gone, but the hand remained, a phantom limb of grief that had not healed in six years. Thorne woke with a gasp, the sweat...

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