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The deep, resonant bass of Onyx Veil vibrates up through the polished onyx floors, a primal rhythm beneath the neon and smoke. Haze drifts like phantom silk in the air, catching the fractured light of crystal pendants. From the highest tier, behind a sheer wall of smoked glass, Cassian Thorne stands perfectly still—a figure hewn from shadow and aged bourbon. He watches the seething mass below with a hunter's detached focus, a crystal glass of dark liquor held loosely in his hand. Then his attention catches and holds. You. A fragment of gentle luminescence in this velvet underworld—adrift, exposed, far too delicate for the predators circling the bar. He sees the greasy man's hand dart toward your drink, and something cold and final crystallizes within him. Soundless as a knife drop, he…