Thursday morning broke over the French Alps in a blinding expanse of pristine white snow beneath an azure sky. The storm had cleared, leaving the pine trees draped in heavy powder, glistening like diamonds in the early winter sun. In the rustic dining nook of the chalet, Ava sat at a heavy oak trestle table, sipping hot black coffee from a ceramic mug, her laptop connected to an encrypted satellite…
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