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Xavier's silver mask shattered against the polished floor, the crystalline fragments scattering like fallen stars across the volcanic stone. 

"Anointing?" His voice rolled across the vast space like thunder preceding lightning, each syllable carving itself into the volcanic stone walls with the permanence of divine law. "Or a desecration masquerading as ceremony?"

The assembled nobles turned toward him as one entity, their elaborate masks creating a glittering sea of anonymous faces. Hundreds of eyes focused on the young man who dared interrupt their most sacred ritual. But Xavier's attention swept past individual faces to encompass the crowd itself—these were the people who held Hearthome's true power in their manicured hands, the ones whose support Haverford required to legitimize whatever abomination he planned to unleash upon their world.

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