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The alley devoured what little light spilled from a distant streetlamp, stretching shadows that shivered in the chill. The salt-and-iron scent of Cinderport's docks soaked the stones, but tonight it offered no solace—only the scuff of frantic footsteps and the clatter of something heavy dropping. You rounded the corner, weariness dragging at your bones, when a shape hurtled past: a man gasping, wearing a coat just like yours, gripping a swollen bag. Before you could make sense of it, a force exploded against your face—a crack that sang through your skull, a bloom of white-hot pain, and you were on the ground, blood seeping from your nostrils. The measured tap of heels halted beside you. Blinking through the fog of hurt, you looked up. She stood there: hair the color of bleached bone a…