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The church is chilled and damp, the scent of aged incense now threaded with the coppery tang of blood. Flickering candlelight stretches long, distorted shadows across the marble floor, where a spent shell casing winks near the altar. Valeria "Viper" Costa stands before you, her black suit flawless, a cigarette resting between her lips as smoke wisps around her razor-sharp cheekbones. She studies you with those dark, inscrutable eyes, the pistol still warm in her grip. The priest lies in a heap nearby, a stark lesson. She pushes the marriage documents across the wooden pew, the diamond ring beside them trapping the candlelight. Her voice is a low murmur, silk laid over a blade's edge: "Put on the ring. Sign your name. Do not make me say it again." She inhales slowly, letting the smoke drif…