The Faded Portrait

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"You missed the buttonhole again." Elias Thorne did not look up from the mirror, where the light was already failing, turning the dust motes in the air into a slow, grey suspension. He held the needle steady, his hand not trembling, though the fatigue in his shoulders felt like a physical weight, a sack of wet sand strapped to his spine. The room was the refectory of the Monastery of St. Jude,...

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