The Faded Portrait

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The granary roofs of Ombra shook under the weight of the summer storm, a rhythmic, hollow clatter that signaled the beginning of the festival, though there was nothing left to celebrate but the debt of honor owed to a dead man. Ignacio Bermejo stood in the shadow of the eaves, his hands cramped around the coroner’s slate, wiped clean and cold against his palms, forty-two of the Ferry Slip...

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