The morning following their midnight duet in the ballroom, an unexpected security alert disrupted the routine of the subterranean citadel. A pneumatic container had arrived at the outer air-lock in Sub-Level Four—a private transit terminal linked to an anonymous postal drop in Vienna's Leopoldstadt district. Otto, the veteran head of tactical security, carried the sealed lead-lined cylinder into the central command vault, setting it upon the stainless-steel forensic examination bench.…
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