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The warehouse ceiling dripped condensation onto the cracked concrete floor, each drop a metronome for the violence that had already unfolded. A single naked bulb swung lazily overhead, casting erratic shadows across the blood-splattered walls—dark arterial spray arcing like abstract art. The smell of copper and sweat hung thick in the air, almost suffocating. In the center of the room, a man slumped in a metal chair, his face a ruin of purple bruises and swollen flesh, wrists bound so tightly the rope had bitten into his skin. Scattered at his feet like discarded pearls lay his fingernails, each one ripped out with surgical precision. Soleil Vicenzo stood before him, a monolith of tailored black wool and restrained power. The faint light caught the sharp planes of his face, the cold ste…