The Faded Portrait

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The drizzle had fallen for ten days, turning the alpine valley into a mirror of grey mud and wet wool. Marlene Fink stood in the counting room of the merchant house, her breath fogging the cold air, while the chains and pulleys of the harbor clattered in the distance, a sound that had begun to feel like the grinding of her own bones. She was thirty-two, a wool grader by trade, but her hands,...

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