The Faded Portrait

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The wind off the gray Atlantic did not blow through Oakhaven; it seeped into the bones of the town, a cold that tasted of iron and salt. Elias Thorne stood at the window of his workshop, watching the fog swallow the harbor, his fingers stained black to the knuckles with iron-gall ink. He was forty-two, a master calligrapher whose hands were steady only when the work was precise, yet today the...

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