The Wistful Crossroads
The banquet hall of the Ministry of Internal Security hummed with the low, metallic resonance of enforced order. Candles flickered in brass holders, their flames trembling not from a draft, but from the collective weight of the eyes fixed upon the table. In the center sat Julian Thorne, a man whose body had been sculpted by decades of rigid discipline, his spine a steel rod piercing the soft...
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