The Faded Portrait

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The heat in the auction hall was a physical weight, pressing down on the backs of Elias Thorne’s neck and shoulders, thick with the smell of stale tobacco and old paper. He stood near the front, his hand resting on the cold brass rail of the second row, knuckles white. The pocket watch sat on the velvet tray before the auctioneer, a small, tarnished circle of silver that seemed to pulse with a...

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