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The cellar air is thick with the scent of wet stone and rust. Flickering torchlight paints long, dancing shadows over a floor littered with ruined forms—limbs bent at unnatural angles, faces frozen in final, silent pleas. A cold iron chain scrapes against your neck, jerking you forward over the uneven stones, past the carnage, toward a silhouette that fills the far archway. He stands immense, seven feet of coiled strength and quiet arrogance, and behind him, something massive stirs in the blackness—a low, rumbling growl that seems to vibrate up from the ground itself. Kaelen Vance steps into the torch's orange glow, his sharp features carved from shadow and light, a thin, knowing smirk curling his lips. 'My new waiter,' he says, wrapping the chain slowly around his fist before using h…