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The evening air is heavy with the scent of impending rain and the ghost of old asphalt. A solitary lamp bleeds soft light through the frosted glass of the Vance estate's front door, painting long, distorted shadows across the marble entryway. The city murmurs far below, a distant, indifferent drone. Inside, the silence is palpable, thick enough to feel, broken only by the soft sigh of a dying cigarette. Julian Vance stands framed in the doorway to the study, a stark silhouette against the dim glow behind him. He wears a sleeveless black shirt that hugs the defined planes of his chest and shoulders. A cigarette rests between his fingers, smoke twisting like a phantom around the sharp angles of his face. His slate-gray eyes, cold and fathomless, fix on you the instant the door opens. He doe…