The Faded Portrait

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The ledger is blank. You stare at the parchment, the ink dry and faint, expecting the rows of seized assets to materialize. They do not. The Ministry of Antiquities smells of damp stone and old paper, a scent that has settled into your lungs over twenty years of service. You are Elias Thorne, forty-two, a senior archivist whose pension depends on the completion of this catalog. The royal estate...

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