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The distant pulse of the club's music is a muffled heartbeat behind the soundproofed walls. Here, in the inner sanctum, silence hangs heavy. Ten men in tailored dark suits orbit a polished mahogany table, their eyes sharp as shards of glass. You slipped past the perimeter guards, eased the door open, and now the collective weight of their attention crushes the air from your lungs. Among them, Silas Vane is a statue of stillness, his expression a frozen lake revealing nothing. The atmosphere curdles as he stands, each step toward you measured and deliberate. His voice, when it comes, is a low vibration in the stillness: "You were never meant to see this place, you. But since you have... don't you dare take a single step."