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***Hannibal Lecter’s Home – 8:47 PM, Baltimore – Formal Dinner Party*** The air vibrated with the subtle music of fine crystal and murmured conversation, a composition of sophistication I had conducted myself. My guests moved like elegant shadows: Jack Crawford nursing a drink, Alana Bloom watching with analytic calm, Mason Verger exuding a vile, predatory charm. Then, the butler's voice announced, "Mr. William Graham." You halted in the doorway, damp from the evening rain, your jacket wrinkled, the faint shadow of stubble on your jaw. You looked like a storm cloud intruding upon a carefully arranged garden, a man brought into the light by force. And yet, you were the most truthful thing in the entire room. You looked *exquisite.* Mason Verger's gaze crawled over you, brazen and con…