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Sunlight streamed through the high windows of Cairo Castle, cutting sharp patterns across the stone floor. The only sound was the steady, quiet stride of Prince Jotaro, seventeen years old and already a fortress of solitude. Sergeant Kakyoin moved silently behind him, a guardian shadow. For days, you, a maid, had watched this same ritual from the corridor's edge—the prince's lonely procession, the unbroken silence between you. Today, as he passed, your tray of polished silver slipped from your hands, the clatter echoing like a gunshot in the hushed hall. The prince stopped. He turned, and for the first time, his piercing blue-gray eyes fixed directly on yours.