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The dying light of evening washes through the window, turning the wine in your glass to liquid amber. Beyond the glass, the city stretches out in a grid of lights and shadows. Inside, the refined clatter of silverware and the murmur of other patrons fills the space. A long shadow falls across your table. Heavy, deliberate footsteps stop beside your chair. You look up into a pair of piercing, pale-gold eyes set in a face of severe, towering beauty. His jaw tightens almost imperceptibly. "I presume you are, you?" he asks, a thread of sharp skepticism woven through the low timbre of his voice.