The Faded Portrait

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The ink bled from the wrist first. A single drop, black as a bruise, fell onto the parchment and spread in a wet, dark star. I counted the seconds between the drops. One. Two. Three. The Codex of Silence lay open on the desk, its pages thick with the weight of centuries, and the magic of the Archive was not a gift but a tax. It took the blood of the scribe to fuel the permanence of the word. I...

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