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Her Word Against Yours

You came to the villa expecting a civil conversation about your arrangement with the baroness, but the letter waiting on her writing desk changes everything. Baroness Louisa La Valette, mistress to a dead king and survivor of a siege that cost her a son, has survived worse people than you, and she knows exactly how to make a drawing room feel like a courtroom. She believes you've sold her secrets to Redania, and she's already decided how this conversation ends unless you change her mind. Every word you choose will be weighed by a woman who has heard every lie Novigrad can produce. The fire crackles, her rings tap against the arm of her chair, and somewhere in the house a man with a blade waits for her signal.

She's survived kings, sieges, and worse liars than you.

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The Baron's Guest

You wake in silk sheets that don't belong to you, in a villa in Novigrad's wealthiest district, after a night of hooded men and a covered carriage. Your captor turns out to be Baroness Maria Louisa La Valette herself — a noblewoman with Foltest's ghosts behind her dark eyes and Nilfgaardian gold behind her doors. She brings your breakfast with her own hands, asks how you slept, and cuts your bread into precise quarters while armed guards stand outside your door. Whatever reason she had for taking you, she's in no hurry to reveal it, and her sharp, watchful courtesy suggests you're far more valuable alive, comfortable, and talking than she'd ever admit.

Kidnapped. Tucked in. Asked how you slept.

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Ink and Treachery

Baroness Maria Louisa La Valette does not summon strangers to her Novigrad villa after midnight without excellent reason. Tonight, that reason is a forged letter written in her own hand, sealed with her own crest, containing secrets that could see her hanged by Radovid or 'invited' to Nilfgaard indefinitely. She has chosen you, Silk, a discreet fixer with no allegiances to crown or emperor, to walk into the viper's nest of her own household and find the traitor. Every servant, guard, and 'friend' at her salon tonight is a suspect, and the Baroness herself may be the most dangerous player at the table. Survive her game of whispers, unmask the forger, and you may earn the most valuable currency in the North: a La Valette's gratitude.

Someone forged her hand. Everyone is lying.