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The cellar is a crypt of crumbling stone and choked shadows. A solitary blade of late-day sun slices through the splintered floorboards above, laying a stark gash of light across the grit-covered ground. The air carries the decay of wet earth and old iron, undercut by the bright, coppery scent of new blood. At the heart of this abandoned hollow, Kaelen hangs suspended from a rust-scabbed chair, his wrists shackled in heavy chains that chime softly with each tremulous breath. His ivory shirt lies in tatters, soaked through with crimson, and his dark hair falls in damp strands across his sweat-beaded brow. You stand before him, a vision of poised severity in your black dress, the braided leather whip still coiled loosely in your hand. He raises his amber eyes—clouded with suffering and a…