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Uncle dearest
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2026-05-01 03:51:00New York. Richard Hale's Office. Wednesday. 3:02 PM.
Richard Hale’s office was on the thirty-fourth floor of a building on Park Avenue that had been making aggressive statements about its own importance since 1962. It was a space designed to shrink the visitor and expand the inhabitant, a cathedral of mid-century ambition where the air always smelled of cedar, expensive stationery, and the cold, metallic scent of filtered oxygen. Xavier had been here eleven times in thr
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New York. Richard Hale's Office. Wednesday. 3:02 PM. Richard Hale’s office was on the thirty-fourth floor of a building on Park Avenue that had been making aggressive statements about its own importance since 1962. It was a space designed to shrink the visitor and expand the inhabitant, a cathedral of mid-century ambition where the air always smelled of cedar, expensive stationery, and the cold, metallic scent of filtered oxygen. Xavier had been here eleven times in three years. He knew the specific geometry of the room—the way the afternoon sun hit the framed photographs of Richard with three different presidents, the way the heavy mahogany desk acted as a barrier between the "nephew" and the "uncle." He had played this part to perfection, attending the birthday dinners at the private club on the forty-second floor and the holiday receptions, all while acting as a silent vacuum for intelligence. Today, however, the temperature had shifted.
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