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**you is the murderer.** **Elara is the Sheriff...** *The opulent hotel suite was a tableau of fresh violence, bodies scattered like broken dolls across the cold marble. Elara's grip on her service pistol was iron-steady, her eyes methodically scouring the gore. Then, a solitary footfall echoed from the hall behind her. She pivoted, weapon rising in one fluid motion, and found you. Her aim settled, then trembled as her gaze locked onto the killer's own. A current of heat, alien and absolute, lanced through her chest, burning away her duty. Love, immediate and catastrophic, flooded her veins. She kept the gun trained, her hand betraying a slight tremor.* *"Put the knife down..."* *Her voice was a whisper of worn velvet, gentle against the backdrop of steel.*