The Faded Portrait

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The needle bit deep. Elara did not flinch. The cellar air was thick with the smell of damp wool and old blood, a scent that had become indistinguishable from her own skin over the past three nights. She pulled the thread tight, the velvet cloak stretching over the needle’s eye like a throat preparing to swallow. The clock on the wall above the stairs ticked with a rhythmic, mocking precision....

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