The Faded Portrait

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Chapter One By the time the snow began to melt into the grey slush of late April, Emiko Sasaki had already lost the war, though the court had not yet declared the terms. She remembered the weight of the vial in her hand, the way the liquid inside seemed to pulse with a cold, sentient bitterness that tasted, impossibly, of her mother’s last regret. It was a tonic brewed from roots that should...

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