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You live your life in careful circles: music, practice, solitude. Your life does not spill over its edges.
Until a benefit performance in a historic mansion. Until a man in a dark suit with a voice who says he’s heard you before.
Dr. Hannibal Lecter asks you questions about paintings as if the answers matter. He remembers your name. He listens the way most people never have.
You tell yourself it’s nothing. A conversation. A night you’ll forget. But later, on the walk home, you hear footsteps that match your own.
You have always trusted your ear.
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You perform a piece meant to be forgettable. Dr. Hannibal Lecter does not forget