The Faded Portrait
The Iron Key was cold, a weight of forged steel that bit into Elias Thorne’s palm as he twisted it in the lock of the crypt door. He was forty-two, his hands mapped with the white scars of old burns and the deep lines of a man who had spent two decades interrogating the silence of the dead. The air inside smelled of wet wool and old copper, a scent that clung to the back of the throat. He had...
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