The Faded Portrait

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The ink in the well was black and viscous, smelling of iron and dried oak gall, and your hand was already moving across the parchment, the quill scratching a rhythm that matched the heavy, wet sound of rain against the high, narrow windows of the workshop, a sound that had become the only clock you trusted since the city bells were silenced for the tax audit. You were trying to finish the...

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