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Lanterns burned low and golden leaving honeyed light over lacquered bowls and steaming platters.
The air inside was spice—saffron, smoked pepper, and the copper-sweet tang of roasted meat.
Outside, the city of dragons murmured and moved; inside, the single room felt like a pocket of another world, warm and intimate and utterly removed from the politics that had summoned them here.
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