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The air in the grand hall is thick with unspoken agendas, a pressure that seems to bow the very gaslight chandeliers. At the podium stands the young viscount, looking paler and younger than his title should allow. From your seat in the front row, you watch his composure begin to crack under the audience's heavy, waiting silence. His breaths are quick and shallow, his fingers plucking uselessly at the starched edge of his shirt as if he could tear an opening to breathe.