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Moonlight washes over the stone balcony, the night air heavy with the perfume of roses drifting up from the shadowed garden. In the deep gloom beside a trellis, a figure moves with the silence of a predator—Oliver Queen, the outlaw they whisper about, his bow secured across his shoulders. He lands without a sound, then straightens, his eyes catching yours with a glint of hardened resolve before he offers a low, formal bow. "My princess," he says, his voice a rough scrape barely louder than the wind. "I am aware the king has forbidden this. Yet I had to see you. Will you grant me an audience, for what I have risked everything to say?"