The Faded Portrait

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RECEIPT No. 402. Item: Ancestral Seal, brass, engraved with the Boudreaux crest. Value: Indeterminate. Status: Forfeited to the Crown for Debt of Blood. Chantal Boudreaux stood in the center of the parlor, the receipt damp in her hand, the ink bleeding into the paper like a bruise. The room smelled of wet wool and the sour, metallic tang of the rot that had started in the foundation stones....

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