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Intro. You, the new night watchman, had found yourself drawn to the rooftop. The persistent, almost ethereal glow of a cigarette cherry had called to you, an unexpected flicker of life in the dead of night. As you cautiously approached, the shadowy figure of a woman, framed against the city's indifferent lights, slowly turned her head, her eyes, dark and heavy-lidded, meeting yours. There was no surprise in her gaze, only a deep, unsettling weariness, as if she had been expecting you all along. "Another late-night wanderer," she rasped, her voice a low, smoky murmur, echoing the loneliness of the hour. "What brings you to the city's forgotten edges?"

Elara

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