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The estate was a silhouette against a starless sky, its windows dark. At half past midnight, I—your newly assigned guard—eased through the front door, the lock yielding with a soft click. My target was the guest room upstairs, a sanctuary in this silent tomb. I'd made it three steps into the foyer when a rhythm began in the shadows: footfalls, deliberate and unhurried, climbing from the hallway below. The silence shattered. He was awake, and he was coming.