The Faded Portrait

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The train hissed into the void, spitting a plume of black smoke that smelled of sulfur and old blood, and Arthur Vane stepped down onto the platform with the weight of the world in his pocket. He was thirty years old, a clerk with ink-stained fingers and a mother who coughed up blood in a damp room in London, and he held the tarnished silver locket tight against his thigh, feeling its cold...

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