The Faded Portrait

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Who would trade a living name for the silence of stone? Act I Bahram Zandi stood in the ash-choked ruins of the Citadel, his fingers white-knuckled around the Faded Portrait. The canvas bled black ink where his thumb pressed, a slow, viscous weep that stained his skin. He was thirty-two, a cook on a packet ship now grounded in this Persian city of gardens, a place where the marshes had been...

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