Chapter 19: I don’t know the game.

Chapter 19: Chapter 19: I don’t know the game.

Felix stared at him as if the world had cracked soundlessly beneath polished marble and only he had heard it happen.

For the span of a single breath, the hall seemed to recede. The ether-light overhead still hummed. Glass still touched glass somewhere to the left. Silk still whispered against marble. But all of it had become distant, flattened beneath the far more violent reality of recognition.

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