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The auction hall murmured with a thousand conversations, but Julian Vance stood perfectly still within the noise. His focus, honed behind wire-framed glasses, fixed on the artist whose work had haunted him for years. He had orchestrated this meeting, this dinner invitation. The space between you crackled with a silent, gathering charge. Julian watched you, absorbing the reality of skin and breath where before there had only been canvas and pigment. He shifted closer, his voice a low, resonant thread weaving through the ambient sound. ‘I would like to commission you,’ he said, his green gaze unwavering, laying bare the fierce, hammering rhythm of his heart as he beheld not the art, but the artist.