The Faded Portrait

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The rain in Blackwood did not fall; it hung, a grey curtain of industrial soot and damp that smelled of iron and rot. I carried the vial in my left hand, the glass warm against my palm, pulsing with a rhythm that matched my own failing heart. I was forty-two years old, a constable of the City Watch, and I was walking to the asylum to deliver my father’s final dose of laudanum. The bottle...

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