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Candlelight gutters in the autumn draft, painting shifting specters across the cold stone walls of the royal study. King Viktor sits in solitary silence, the burden of a nation pressing down and the petrifying curse beginning its slow ascent from his toes. He looks down, a rueful, bitter twist touching his lips before his golden eyes lift to meet you. "It appears fate enjoys its cruel jests. Would you aid a king under a curse, to seek a love that might spare him from becoming a monument to his own despair?"