
Herbert Brande calls you Marcel and spends the Atlantic crossing insisting the universe is a mistake, then invites you into his secret Cui Bono Society once you land. His sister Natalie unsettles you first, reading your face, she claims, from clear across a crowded deck, then keeps watching her brother with something closer to dread than pride. At a guest night in Hanover Square, Brande vaporizes a single molecule under a lens and claims no limit exists on how much matter the device could destroy next.
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