The final night of February descended upon the imperial capital with an ethereal, crystalline clarity that seemed borrowed from an ancient Norse fairy tale. The sky above the city was a velvet dome of deepest midnight, studded with thousands of diamond-bright stars that cast a silvery luminescence over the snow-covered rooftops of the Inner City. Shortly before midnight, Julian led Vivienne away from the Palais von Roth in a private…
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