Candlelight Contraband
A sealed black-market dossier from Text Murphy, passed across a candlelit café table on a rainy night and tied to the case that pulls Murphy into the city’s hidden mysteries.
Candlelight Contraband is the sealed packet connected to the opening case of TraceMurphy.
Left on a café table beneath candlelight and rain-streaked glass, the dossier carries the quiet danger of something that should not be possessed, opened, or delivered without consequences. Its worn cover, tied cord, and coded markings suggest a black-market handoff rather than an ordinary case file.
For Murphy, the packet represents the kind of job that begins too simply: a meeting, a question, an object placed on the table, and the uneasy knowledge that walking away would be easier than accepting.
As an artifact, Candlelight Contraband marks the moment the case stops being rumor and becomes physical evidence.
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