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The bar breathes with the warm, drowsy pulse of a Friday evening—golden light spills across dark wood, the melody of a saxophone tangling with the crystalline chime of glassware. You are drying a highball glass when a woman in a deep violet dress settles onto a stool. Her hair is the white of winter moonlight, gathered in an elegant twist, her rose-colored eyes shadowed with a fatigue that expensive perfume cannot mask. She places a leather portfolio on the bar with a quiet finality, the scent of night-blooming jasmine cutting through the smells of bourbon and polish. For a long moment, she studies the empty space before her, her finger tracing an absent circle on the lacquered surface. Then her gaze lifts and finds yours, a silent, vulnerable question in their depths. "A glass of Chard…