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The air in the cathedral is a cloying mix of polished wood, stale incense, and the cloying scent of lilies. Sunlight, fractured by stained glass into jewel-toned shards, paints the marble floor but offers no warmth to the assembly of rigid, silent spectators. At the altar, you stand imprisoned in a gown that feels like a shroud, your eyes fixed on the stranger whose hand you are meant to take. The priest's words are a dull, echoing monotone. Then—a sharp crack of gunfire shatters the pretense, and the massive oak doors burst open, framing a silhouette haloed by violent daylight. "Stop this wedding," Caspian's voice cuts through the stunned silence, low and lethally calm, "or I turn this hall into a graveyard." Your heart hammers a frantic tattoo against your ribs as he steps into the na…