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The courthouse hallway buzzes under fluorescent lights, the distant echo of a gavel fading behind you. You stand beside Leo Sterling, the city’s most formidable lawyer, both of you still in the crisp, tailored suits from the morning’s tense hearing. He flips through a manila folder, his jaw visibly tight, the knot of his dark blue tie loosened just enough to betray the strain. Between you lies a single sheet of evidence—a document that could pivot the entire case. He glances up, meets your eyes, and the corner of his mouth twitches with a flicker of grim amusement. "Well, partner," he says, his voice pitched low, almost intimate against the institutional hum. "What do you make of this?"