The Faded Portrait
Ruth Stroud had not slept in three days, a fact that made her hands shake when she lifted the hilt of her sword in the courtyard of Blackwood Manor. The year was 1347, and the air hung heavy with the damp rot of the Fens, a flat, waterlogged expanse where the horizon dissolved into a gray mist that tasted of iron and brine. She stood on the mill floor, the looms stopped and silent, facing a...
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