The Faded Portrait

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The seal was heavy, cold, and stained with the grease of three years’ unpaid service. Elias Thorne held it in his palm, the metal biting into the calluses of a man who had spent the last decade swinging a sword until his shoulders ached in the damp. He stood before the High Lord’s portrait, a massive canvas of oil and varnish that dominated the keep’s eastern wall. The Lord’s eyes, painted in a...

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