The Devil's Game
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One evening, after he left a stack of scrambled communications on her desk, Ayra cracked the cipher in twenty minutes and left a clean translation with a note that simply read:
“You’ll have to make it harder next time.”
Lucian’s reply was a smirk over his teacup the following morning.
“I did,” he said. “It’s waiting for you.”
She was still smiling hours later.
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The intelligence sessions came next.
“This is an information map,” Lucian explained, drawing circles and names across the parchment. “Every person has three versions: who they are, who people think they are, and who they’re trying to be.”
Ayra leaned closer, following his strokes.
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