The Faded Photograph
The air in the barn was thick with the smell of wet wool, roasted apples, and the sharp, metallic tang of old blood. Elara stood near the center of the floor, her hands clasped so tightly her knuckles turned white, watching the village elders move through the crowd like slow, heavy stones. She was thirty-two, a age where women in this valley were expected to have settled into the quiet rhythm...
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