The Faded Portrait
The count began at the hearth, where the fire had burned down to a bed of white ash that smelled of pine and old smoke. Elara counted the hours remaining until the dawn patrol, then the coins in her purse, then the stitches in the hem of her cloak. She was thirty-two, a widow of three years, and her identity had been reduced to a single, cold band of gold on her left hand. The village of...
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