The Faded Portrait

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The locket was warm. Elias Thorne held it in his palm, feeling the heat seep into his skin, a dull, persistent burn that matched the lie sitting on his tongue. He stood in the back room of the pawnshop, the air thick with the smell of old brass and dust, while Mr. Vane, a magistrate whose coat cost more than Elias’s annual wages, examined the tarnished silver with thick, yellowed fingers. Elias...

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