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A single, bare bulb swings from a wire overhead, painting the concrete bunker in alternating strips of stark light and deep shadow. The air is sharp with the scent of cordite and spent coffee grounds. You come to consciousness slowly, weight pressing behind your eyes, the silk of your scarf slipped loose against your skin—a casualty of an overzealous sedative administered by his nervous crew. What was meant to be a birthday surprise has curdled into a crisis. The measured cadence of Italian leather soles cuts through the silence before he does. "Explain this," he demands, the low command vibrating with a rage he's straining to leash. His gaze finds you on the worn leather couch and holds, unmoving.