The Faded Portrait

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The silver reliquary was cold, slick with condensation, and heavy as a leaden brick. Elara held it against her hip, the tarnished metal biting into her palm, her knuckles white beneath the grime of the siege. Outside the abbey walls, the mortar fire had ceased, replaced by the wet, rhythmic thud of the enemy battering ram against the oak gate. She was thirty-two years old, and for the first...

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