The Faded Portrait
The champagne tasted of copper and cold iron. Elias Thorne counted the bubbles rising in his glass, one by one, until the number blurred into a meaningless swarm. Four hundred and twelve guests. Forty-two years old. One promotion away from securing the hospital bed for his daughter, Elara, whose lungs rattled like dry leaves in a tin can. The regimental ball was a feast of noise, the brass band...
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