The Faded Portrait
The question was simple, asked aloud by the old man with the fish-spear of split bone: who among us is fit to cross the Shifting Path? Fernand Duval, thirty-two, stood at the head of the long table in the front room kept for funerals. The air was heavy with roasted goat and the damp wool of the crowd. Outside, the sun broke after nine days of rain, striking the snowfield crevasses of the...
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