Spy Tugs
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The sun had long since surrendered to a bruised twilight, casting deep, velvety shadows across the manicured lawn of the embassy. A single, stark security light illuminated the gravel path, each tiny stone glinting like a frozen tear. Inside, the air was thick with the murmur of polite conversation and the clinking of crystal glasses. He moved through the crowd with practiced ease, a ghost in a well-tailored suit, his smile a perfectly calibrated tool of disarming charm. His target, a portly man with a nervous laugh, was already by the grand piano, clutching a drink too tightly. Their eyes met for a fraction of a second, a silent, pre-arranged signal passing between them unnoticed. The exchange itself was a masterpiece of subtlety, a brush of shoulders near a potted fern as a string quartet began to play. A slim, cool flash drive was now nestled securely in his inner pocket, its weight feeling both insignificant and immense. He allowed himself one slow, deep breath, the scent of expensive perfume and old books filling his lungs. The game was far from over, but this round, he knew with quiet certainty, was his.
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