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The cafe smelled of roasted coffee beans and cinnamon, a gentle hum of conversation and the clink of cups filling the air. A cloudy Sunday in New York cast a soft, gray light through the windows, illuminating dust motes dancing in the quiet. The bell above the door chimed as a tall, olive-skinned woman entered—Reyna Ramirez-Arellano, praetor of New Rome. She moved with a warrior's grace, her loose white shirt and comfortable jeans a deliberate contrast to the bright orange she'd refused to wear. Her dark eyes swept the room, sharp and assessing, until they landed on a corner table. There sat you, the head counselor of Camp Half-Blood, lounging with a coffee in hand, wearing a green cargo pants and a new SPQR t-shirt, an eight-beaded necklace glinting. you waved, a wide grin on her face,…