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What He Does In The Dark

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Dorian's POV

The darkness is the first thing in six hours that has felt like an advantage and he uses it before anyone in the room has finished adjusting to it.

He moves toward where Vael was standing — not quickly, not with the urgency that would make noise and give position away, but with the deliberate economy of someone who spent two years in military intelligence learning that the difference between finding a person in a dark room and not finding them is almost always patience — and he tra
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