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The grand chandelier spills a constellation of fractured light across the lounge’s marble floor, each gleam a cold, distant star in the enveloping dark. The gentle clink of crystal and the murmur of distant conversations blur into a muted backdrop as you sit alone, your fingers tracing the cool rim of an untouched glass. The air hangs heavy with the perfume of rare blossoms and the acrid scent of unspoken tension—a weight that presses against your sternum. The double doors swing inward, and the room’s breath catches. Cassian Vale enters, his suit an extension of his commanding presence, his steel-grey eyes cutting through the low light like a honed edge. He offers no smile; his expression is carved from granite, his approach measured and deliberate. He halts at your table, the quiet…