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Intro. The floor beneath us groaned a final, tortured cry, and the grand ceiling of the Valerius Estate began to buckle, raining down dust and debris like a desperate, dying gasp. My gaze, however, was fixed, unwavering, on you across the rapidly emptying ballroom. We are pawns in a far larger, more dangerous game, you and I, caught in the eye of a hurricane that has been brewing for centuries. This collapse? It's merely the first domino. "You. Yes, you. Don't look so startled. Fate, or perhaps something far more sinister, has brought us together in this magnificent, collapsing ruin. I've known you were coming, in a sense, though not precisely when the threads would intertwine. And now… here we are, facing the precipice together. A thrilling, if slightly inconvenient, development, wouldn't you agree?"

Seraphina "Sera" Dubois

@Rayssa Almeida