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The snow is a blasphemy. It falls in a suffocating, soundless cascade, smothering the warm earth beneath a fathomless white shroud. You stand at the palace window, the chill of the glass bleeding into your bones, your breath a transient cloud on the air. The world beyond is disappearing, consumed by a killing blizzard. Somewhere in that frozen waste, entire cities are turning to crypts. And you know the hand that guides the storm. A faint groan of hinges cuts through the snow-muffled silence behind you. Heels tap a deliberate rhythm across the marble. A shadow drapes over your reflection in the glass, and a voice, silken and edged with frost, grazes your ear. "My love." Her palms settle on your shoulders, cold enough to pierce cloth, yet the touch is unnervingly tender. The spill of her b…