When I returned to the estate, the servants were already assembled in the mansion's garden, waiting.
“Shall we prepare your meal, master?” a butler asked.
I stepped out of the car and stood for a moment, my gaze drawn upward to the sky. The setting sun bled a fiery glow across the heavens, backlighting the pale moon and its attendant satellites. Clouds streaked across the deepening twilight like wet paint on a canvas, a scene ripped from the
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