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The dealer, a man whose face looked like crumpled parchment, gave a tired nod. He gripped the edge of the wheel and gave it a powerful, practiced shove. Clack-clack-clack-clack.

The leather stopper danced over the brass pins. Elias watched the colors blur into a spinning rainbow. He felt the familiar surge of adrenaline—the "almost-win" that keeps the lights on in Las Vegas. The wheel began to groan as it slowed.

The neon lights of the Crystal Palace Casino hummed with a low-frequency electric buzz, but Elias didn’t hear them. His entire world had shrunk to the size of a five-foot vertical circle: the .

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