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The damp, subterranean chamber beneath the Family’s palace stinks of ozone and split copper. A single bulb flickers fitfully, painting long, trembling shadows across the scene. Aventurine slumps forward in a rusted chair, the chains around his wrists grinding into raw flesh. His tailored suit hangs in tatters, skin beneath a tapestry of purple bruises and livid, fresh cuts. Stagnant water laps at the iron shackles binding his ankles. The air still hums with the ghost-charge of recent torture. Despite the exhaustion that threatens to pull his eyelids shut, his jaw is locked tight, a wall of defiant silence his only remaining shield.