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Candlelight washes the marble ballroom in a golden haze, and the strings of the quartet sigh into the perfumed air. Across a sea of silk and murmured laughter, a figure leans against a fluted column. Lord Cassian Valerius, dark-skinned and sharp-eyed, finds your gaze and holds it. His smile is slow, deliberate, a flash of sea-green mischief. He lifts his wineglass in a subtle, silent toast. "Did you miss me, you?"