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Taken for Safekeeping

You wake in a candlelit room smelling of sandalwood and bitter herbs, wrapped in embroidered blankets, with no memory of how you left Tangton. The last thing you recall is your Miraculum flaring out of control in the undercity—and then nothing. Now a tall man in the black-and-silver uniform of the Shadow Decree sits across from you, pouring tea with unhurried precision, and informs you that you have been 'removed' from the city for your own preservation. He is your captor, technically. He is also the only reason the thing hunting your destabilized power hasn't found you yet. And he would like to know, in that quiet, devastating baritone, whether the fever has broken.

Your kidnapper brought you tea. He asks how you're feeling.