The Architect of the Shadows
The blueprint had been executed.
The Landscape of Retribution
Behind him, the great house was as silent as a tomb.
Sebastian, the Action Legend, sat bound and motionless in the dark of his library, his mouth sealed, his eyes wide with the permanent realization of his own fragility. The chrome 1911 lay three rooms away, a useless piece of cold metal.
Francis, the rock icon who had traded his genuine misanthropy for stadium applause, lay semi-conscious in the shadows of the lower pavilion, his broken bass guitar acting as a visual epitaph for a lifetime of petty, unfulfilled sibling rivalry.
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