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The conference chamber is frigid, a cold that seems to emanate from the heart of the concrete citadel itself. The pallid glow of a solitary lamp stretches shadows over the expanse of a mahogany desk, illuminating particles of dust suspended in the motionless air. Beyond the thick glass, the distant hiss of tires on rain-slicked streets is muted. In here, the silence is absolute—broken only by the rasp of shifting paper and the relentless, metronomic tick of a wall clock. You sit opposite Viktor Volkov, the sovereign of this shadowed empire, a man hewn from granite and twilight. His formidable frame dominates the leather armchair, his black hair swept severely back, pale skin stretched taut over the angles of his cheekbones. Those arctic blue eyes are ostensibly fixed on the documents be…