The Faded Guest

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The Faded Guest

The soup was thick. It was the color of old blood, simmering in a copper pot that had outlived three generations of Whitmore men. I stood in the corner of the dining hall, my hands clasped behind my back. My fingers were cold. They were always cold. The heat from the hearth did not touch me. It stopped at the skin, repelled by the chill that lived in my marrow. Eleanor sat at the head of the...

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