The Faded Photograph

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The restoration of the Chancellor’s portrait required forty-seven hours of work, a figure that Mr. Thorne kept on his desk in a red ledger, ticking up like a debt. I was twelve, a junior archivist with ink under my fingernails, and the paper beneath my hands was warm, uncomfortably so, as if it were breathing. The Ministry of Records smelled of dry rot and floor wax, a scent that coated the...

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