The Faded Portrait

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The ink was wet. Elara wiped her thumb against the hem of her dress, leaving a smear of black on the white wool. It did not come off. It bit into her skin, cold and sharp, like a drop of mercury. She stood before the great canvas in the high gallery of the Silver Spire, the air thick with the smell of turpentine and old dust. The portrait of King Aldous, her husband, hung three feet above the...

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