The return to Castello di Moretti from the bloodstained slopes of Mount Etna was shrouded in the heavy, amber twilight of a Mediterranean dusk. The armored convoy of black Mercedes SUVs wound its way up the sheer limestone switchbacks of Monte Tauro, the tires crunching over loose volcanic gravel. Outside the tinted ballistic glass, the Ionian Sea turned from sapphire blue to deep, bruised violet, while Mount Etna's volcanic plume…
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