Standing before the thirty-ton tungsten and brass vault door, Isla Laurent felt the weight of six centuries of her family's bloodline converging into a single heartbeat. The massive brass dial was cold beneath her fingers, its concentric rings etched with intricate Byzantine star-charts, Arabic numerals, and astrological alignments. In the dead center of the locking plate was a circular chamber precisely shaped to receive the *Heart of Byzantium*. From her…
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