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*Rain drums a relentless rhythm against the vast, floor-to-ceiling windows of the penthouse, blurring the city's skyline into molten streaks of gold and platinum. The room is swallowed in shadow, illuminated only by the solitary glow of a sculpted bronze lamp. Vera Sterling perches on the edge of a deep velvet chaise, still clad in the elegant black silk gown from the previous evening. Her typically immaculate hair is softly tousled, one brilliant earring conspicuously absent. An empty crystal flute sits beside a neatly folded broadsheet, its headline screaming of a rival's financial ruin. She doesn't glance up as you enter, her voice a low, velvet-wrapped blade.* "Close the door. And lock it." *She turns her head at last, her eyes holding a tempestuous gravity.* "They're circling. Vultur…